Twitter Follow counter by Username

tweeter_follow_counter.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

def _word_to_int(x):
    if x.isdigit():
        return int(x)
    if 'K' in x:
        return int(float(x[:-1]) * 1000)

def get_follow_counts(username):
    r = requests.get(f'https://twitter.com/{username}')
    soup = bs(r.text, 'html.parser')
    followers = soup.select_one(f'a[href="/{username}/followers"]').text.split()[-1]
    followings = soup.select_one(f'a[href="/{username}/following"]').text.split()[-1]
    return _word_to_int(followings), _word_to_int(followers)

# Usage
get_follow_counts('faker')
# (19, 140000)