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Gor
Gor

Reputation: 505

Get all screen names from Twitter without hitting rate limit

I have successfully gotten a bunch of Twitter user_ids using the Twitter API resource "GET friends/ids".

I need to be able to get all screen names from Twitter without hitting the rate limit. I know I can use "GET friendships/show" to get the "screen_name", but to do that, I would have to loop through all of the user_ids, each one being a request, thereby potentially hitting the rate limit.

Does anyone know of a way to send an array of user_ids, in one request? Or... any other ideas or methods?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1026

Answers (1)

John
John

Reputation: 529

You can use the users/lookup API? I believe you can send a list of upto 100 userids in one request and it will send back a fair bit of info about each one, including their last tweet. As it says in the docs

It's also well suited for use in tandem with friends/ids and followers/ids.

I think this will solve your problem.

Upvotes: 3

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