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Python – API.report_spam() in Tweepy

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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.report_spam()

The report_spam() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to report a user as the authenticated user.

Syntax : API.report_spam(id / screen_name / user_id, perform_block) 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.
  • perform_block: indicates if the reported account should also be blocked or not.

Returns : an object of class User

Example 1 : Report and block the following user :  

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# import the module
import tweepy
 
# assign the values accordingly
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""
 
# authorization of consumer key and consumer secret
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
 
# set access to user's access key and access secret
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
 
# calling the api
api = tweepy.API(auth)
 
# the account to be reported
screen_name = "twitter"
 
# reporting the account
api.report_spam(screen_name = screen_name)


Output : Example 2 : Only report the following account (do not block it) :  

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# the account to be reported
screen_name = "twitter"
 
# do not block
perform_block = False
 
# reporting the account
api.report_spam(screen_name = screen_name, perform_block = perform_block)


Output :



Last Updated : 20 Feb, 2023
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