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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
""" | |
Get user_ids for followers of a particular account: | |
% ./followers_ids.py jack > ids.txt | |
""" | |
import sys | |
import time | |
import tweepy | |
from os import environ as e | |
if len(sys.argv) != 2: | |
print "usage: followers_ids.py [screen_name]" | |
sys.exit(1) | |
screen_name = sys.argv[1] | |
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(e['CONSUMER_KEY'], e['CONSUMER_SECRET']) | |
auth.set_access_token(e['ACCESS_TOKEN'], e['ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET']) | |
t = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True) | |
c = tweepy.Cursor( | |
t.followers_ids, | |
screen_name=screen_name, | |
count=5000 | |
) | |
finished = False | |
while not finished: | |
try: | |
for id in c.items(): | |
print id | |
finished = True | |
except tweepy.TweepError as e: | |
sys.stderr.write("caught %s\n" % e) | |
time.sleep(10) |
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