Python Tweepy – Getting the number of friends of a user
In this article we will see how we can get the number of friends of a user. A friend is an account which the user is following. The friends_count attribute provides us with and integer donating the number of friends the user account has.
Identifying the number of friends in the GUI :
In the above mentioned profile the number of friends are : 11
In order to get the number of friends we have to do the following :
- Identify the user ID or the screen name of the profile.
- Get the User object of the profile using the
get_user()
method with the user ID or the screen name.
- From this object, fetch the friends_count 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 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)
id = 57741058
user = api.get_user( id )
friends_count = user.friends_count
print ( "The number of friends of the user are : " + str (friends_count))
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Output :
The number of friends of the user are : 11
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.
screen_name = "PracticeGfG"
user = api.get_user(screen_name)
friends_count = user.friends_count
print ( "The number of friends of the user are : " + str (friends_count))
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Output :
The number of friends of the user are : 5
Last Updated :
21 Jun, 2020
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