Python Tweepy – Getting the description of a user

In this article we will see how we can get the description of a user. The description of the describes a user account. The description attribute is optional and is Nullable.

Identifying the description in the GUI :

In the above mentioned profile the description is : Your one-stop destination to attain Coding Nirvana…

In order to get the description we have to do the following :

1. Identify the user ID or the screen name of the profile.
2. Get the User object of the profile using the get_user() method with the user ID or the screen name.
3. From this object, fetch the description attribute present in it.

Example 1: Consider the following profile :

We will use the user ID to fetch the user. The user ID of the above mentioned profile is 57741058.

# 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 ID of the user
id = 57741058

# fetching the user
user = api.get_user(id)

# fetching the description
description = user.description

print("The description of the user is : " + description)

Output :

The description of the user is : Your one-stop destination to attain Coding Nirvana...

Example 2: Consider the following profile :

We will use the screen name to fetch the user. The screen name of the above mentioned profile is PracticeGfG.

# the screen name of the user
screen_name = "PracticeGfG"

# fetching the user
user = api.get_user(screen_name)

# fetching the description
description = user.description

print("The description of the user is : " + description)

Output :

The description of the user is : Platform to practice programming problems. Solve 
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