Python – API.create_block() in Tweepy
Last Updated :
08 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.create_block()
The create_block()
method of the API
class in Tweepy module is used to block a user as the authenticated user.
Syntax : API.create_block(id / screen_name / user_id)
Parameters : Only use one of the 3 options:
- id : specifies the ID or the screen name of the user.
- user_id : specifies the ID of the user, useful to differentiate accounts when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.
- screen_name : specifies the screen name of the user, useful to differentiate accounts when a valid screen name is also a user ID.
Returns : an object of class User
Example 1 : Consider the following user :
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)
screen_name = "geeksforgeeks"
api.create_block(screen_name)
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Output :
Example 2 : Checking if the user has been blocked or not by the create_block()
method.
id = 4802800777
print ( "Before using the create_block() method : " )
if api.show_friendship(target_id = id )[ 0 ].blocking = = True :
print ( "The user has been blocked by the authenticated user." )
else :
print ( "The user has not been blocked by the authenticated user." )
api.create_block( id )
print ( "\nAfter using the create_block() method : " )
if api.show_friendship(target_id = id )[ 0 ].blocking = = True :
print ( "The user has been blocked by the authenticated user." )
else :
print ( "The user has not been blocked by the authenticated user." )
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Output :
Before using the create_block() method :
The user has not been blocked by the authenticated user.
After using the create_block() method :
The user has been blocked by the authenticated user.
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