twitter-list-lists.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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# twitter-list-lists
#  - lists the lists owned by each of a list of users
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from twitter import *

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# the list of users that we want to examine
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users = [ "ideoforms", "hrtbps", "mocost" ]

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# load our API credentials 
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import sys
sys.path.append(".")
import config

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# create twitter API object
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twitter = Twitter(auth = OAuth(config.access_key,
                  config.access_secret,
                  config.consumer_key,
                  config.consumer_secret))

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# for each of our users in turn...
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import pprint
for user in users:
    print("@%s" % (user))

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    # ...retrieve all of the lists they own.
    # twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/lists/list
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    result = twitter.lists.list(screen_name = user)
    for list in result:
        print(" - %s (%d members)" % (list["name"], list["member_count"]))