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Manas Chaturvedi
Manas Chaturvedi

Reputation: 5540

Twitter: Finding number of followers from a Twitter account URL

Is there a way to find the number of followers of a Twitter user just by using the user's Twitter account URL? For example, using a Twitter account URL like www.twitter.com/abc, could I find the number of followers that the user corresponding to that account URL currently has?

I have extracted the followers count using BeautifulSoup in Python, but is there a non-scraping way to accomplish this? I know that there is an API which finds the followers count using the user id, but couldn't find anything which would help me find the follower count using only the Twitter account URL.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 762

Answers (1)

user2398029
user2398029

Reputation: 6937

You can extract the screen name from the URL, and then use users/lookup, which returns among other things the follower_count of the given user.

Upvotes: 2

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