Python – API.friends() in Tweepy

05 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.
The friends() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get the specified user’s friends(the users they are following) ordered in which they were added.
Syntax : API.friends(id / user_id / screen_name)
Parameters : Only use one of the 3 options:id : specifies the ID or the screen name of the useruser_id : specifies the ID of the user, useful to differentiate accounts when a valid user ID is also a valid screen namescreen_name : specifies the screen name of the user, useful to differentiate accounts when a valid screen name is also a user IDIf no user is specified it defaults to the authenticated user.
Returns : a list of objects of the class User
Example 1 :The friends() method returns the 20 most recent friends.
# import the moduleimport tweepy  # assign the values accordinglyconsumer_key = ""consumer_secret = ""access_token = ""access_token_secret = ""  # authorization of consumer key and consumer secretauth = 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 screen_name of the targeted userscreen_name = "TwitterIndia"  # printing the latest 20 friends of the userfor friend in api.friends(screen_name):    print(friend.screen_name)
Output :
misskaul
rajyasabhatv
DDNewslive
TwitterMedia
abpmajhatv
htTweets
News18Haryana
jack
BBCHindi
the_hindu
mentalhealthind
ProKabaddi
firstpost
livemint
hcmariwala
mathrubhumi
PTUshaOfficial
anubhabhonsle
kmmalleswari
DipaKarmakar

Example 2: More than 20 friends can be accessed using the Cursor() method.
# the screen_name of the targeted userscreen_name = "TwitterIndia"  # getting only 30 friendsfor friend in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name).items(30):    print(friend.screen_name)
Output :
misskaul
rajyasabhatv
DDNewslive
TwitterMedia
abpmajhatv
htTweets
News18Haryana
jack
BBCHindi
the_hindu
mentalhealthind
ProKabaddi
firstpost
livemint
hcmariwala
mathrubhumi
PTUshaOfficial
anubhabhonsle
kmmalleswari
DipaKarmakar
NewIndianXpress
M_Raj03
DDNational
isro
PTTVOnlineNews
cricketnext
thebetterindia
AGSawant
MahendraP_BJP
DrRPNishank

Example 3: Counting the number of followers.
# the screen_name of the targeted userscreen_name = "geeksforgeeks"  # getting all the friendsc = tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name)  # counting the number of friendscount = 0for friends in c.items():    count += 1print(screen_name + " has " + str(count) + " friends.")
Output :
geeksforgeeks has 8 friends.
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