Python – API.show_list_subscriber() in Tweepy
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.show_list_subscriber()
The show_list_subscriber()
method of the API
class in Tweepy module is used to check if a user is a subscriber of a specified list.
Syntax : API.show_list_subscriber(parameters)
Parameters :
- list_id : ID of the list.
- slug : slug of the list.
- screen_name : screen name of the user to be checked.
- user_id : user ID of the user to be checked.
- 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 User
Example 1 : When the user has subscribed to the list.
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 = 4343
screen_name = "LiptakCarl"
api.show_list_subscriber(list_id = list_id, screen_name = screen_name)
print ( "The user " + screen_name + " is subscribed to the list " +
api.get_list(list_id = list_id).name)
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Output :
The user LiptakCarl is subscribed to the list Thought Leaders
Example 2 : When the user is not subscribed to the list then an exception is raised.
list_id = 4343
screen_name = "geeksforgeeks"
api.show_list_subscriber(list_id = list_id, screen_name = screen_name)
print ( "The user " + screen_name + " is subscribed to the list " +
api.get_list(list_id = list_id).name)
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Output :
raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
tweepy.error.TweepError: [{'code': 109, 'message': 'The specified user is not a subscriber of this list.'}]
Last Updated :
10 Jun, 2020
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