Python – API.add_list_members() in Tweepy
Last Updated :
10 Jun, 2020
Twitter is a popular social network where users share messages called tweets. Twitter allows us to mine the data of any user using Twitter API or Tweepy. The data will be tweets extracted from the user. The first thing to do is get the consumer key, consumer secret, access key and access secret from twitter developer available easily for each user. These keys will help the API for authentication.
API.add_list_members()
The add_list_members()
method of the API
class in Tweepy module is used to add multiple members to a specified list.
Syntax : API.add_list_members(parameters)
Parameters :
- list_id : ID of the list.
- slug : slug of the list.
- user_id : ID of the user to be added to the list.
- screen_name : screen name of the user to be added to the list.
- owner_id : ID of the owner of the list.
- owner_screen_name : screen name of the owner of the list.
Returns : an object of class List
Example 1 : Adding a single member to the list using the add_list_members()
method.
import tweepy
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
list_id =
screen_name = "geeksforgeeks"
print ( "Number of members before add_list_member() is used : " +
str (api.get_list(list_id = list_id).member_count))
api.add_list_members(list_id = list_id, screen_name = screen_name)
print ( "Number of members after add_list_member() is used : " +
str (api.get_list(list_id = list_id).member_count))
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Output :
Number of members after add_list_members() is used : 0
Number of members after add_list_members() is used : 1
Example 2 : Adding multiple members to the list using the add_list_members()
method.
list_id =
users = [ "geeksforgeeks" , "PracticeGfG" ,
"GeeksQuiz" , "hackerrank" ]
print ( "Number of members before add_list_member() is used : " +
str (api.get_list(list_id = list_id).member_count))
api.add_list_members(list_id = list_id, screen_name = users)
print ( "Number of members after add_list_member() is used : " +
str (api.get_list(list_id = list_id).member_count))
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Output :
Number of members before add_list_members() is used : 0
Number of members after add_list_members() is used : 4
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