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pythontwittertweepytwitterapi-python
Dwight
Dwight

Reputation: 63

How to use tweepy for Twitter API v2 in getting user id by username?

I'm trying to replicate this snippet from geeksforgeeks, except that it uses the oauth for Twitter API v1.1 while I the API v2.

# the screen name of the user
screen_name = "PracticeGfG"

# fetching the user
user = api.get_user(screen_name)

# fetching the ID
ID = user.id_str

print("The ID of the user is : " + ID)

OUTPUT:
The ID of the user is: 4802800777.

And here's mine:

import os
import tweepy

API_KEY = os.getenv('API_KEY')
API_KEY_SECRET = os.getenv('API_KEY_SECRET')
BEARER_TOKEN = os.getenv('BEARER_TOKEN')
ACCESS_TOKEN = os.getenv('ACCESS_TOKEN')
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = os.getenv('ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET')

screen_name = 'nytimes'

client = tweepy.Client(consumer_key=API_KEY, consumer_secret=API_KEY_SECRET, access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN, access_token_secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

user = client.get_user(screen_name)
id = user.id_str

print(id)

When I run mine, it returns this error:

TypeError: get_user() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given.

Can you give me hints in what did I miss? Thanks ahead.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 10045

Answers (2)

ITCrowd
ITCrowd

Reputation: 53

I believe that client.get_user(username=screen_name) returns a class so this function works for me:

def return_twitterid(screen_name):
    print("The screen name is: " + screen_name)
    twitterid = client.get_user(username=screen_name)
    print(type(twitterid)) #to confirm the type of object
    print(f"The Twitter ID is {twitterid.data.id}.")
    return

Upvotes: 5

user459872
user459872

Reputation: 24602

get_user have the following signature.

Client.get_user(*, id, username, user_auth=False, expansions, tweet_fields, user_fields)

Notice the *. * is used to force the caller to use named arguments. For example, This won't work.

>>> def add(first, *, second):
...     print(first, second)
...
>>> add(1, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: add() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

But this will

>>> add(1, second=2)
1 2

So to answer your question you should call the get_user method like this.

client.get_user(username=screen_name)

Upvotes: 6

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