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Daniel Zhang
Daniel Zhang

Reputation: 217

Tweepy: Check if a user is following me

I have the following code, where I'm trying to unfollow anyone who isn't following me. I'm currently just seeing if a username is in the followers list, and if not, unfollowing them.

followers = []
for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers).items():
    followers.append(follower.screen_name)

for friend in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends).items():
    if friend.screen_name in followers:
        continue
    else:
        api.destroy_friendship(friend.screen_name)

It's somewhat tedious, so I'd like to make it shorter. I think I'm supposed to use either api.show_friendships or api.lookup_friendships, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that.

How would I go about fixing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1052

Answers (2)

Daniel Zhang
Daniel Zhang

Reputation: 217

I used the following code:

my_screen_name = api.me().screen_name
    status = api.show_friendship(source_screen_name = friend.screen_name, target_screen_name = my_screen_name)
    if status[0].following:
        print(f'{friend.screen_name} follows {my_screen_name}.')
    else:
        api.destroy_friendship(friend.screen_name)

Upvotes: 1

Beppe C
Beppe C

Reputation: 13983

You can use lookup_friendships to confirm who is following you

    screen_names = ["user1", "user2", "user3"]
    api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)

    ret = api.lookup_friendships(screen_names = screen_names)
    for rel in ret:
        # name:user1 isFollowedBy? False
        print(f'name:{rel.screen_name} isFollowedBy? {rel.is_followed_by} ')

The output is the a list of Relationship objects where you can see who is a follower (see example above) and who you are following

Upvotes: 2

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