Checking user followed on Twitter to see which ones are not added to a list.

check_twitter_followers.py

# coding: utf-8

import twitter
from tqdm import tqdm
from collections import defaultdict
import pickle
import pandas as pd


# Twitter API token
auth = ( , # 25 alphanum characters hash
         , # 50 alphanum characters hash
         , # 9 numbers - 40 alphanum characters hash
         ,) # 45 alphanum characters hash

# Including @ at the beginning
my_handle = ""


api = twitter.Api(*auth)

my_lists = api.GetListsList()
following = api.GetFriendIDs()

following_mapping = defaultdict(list)
for l in tqdm(my_lists):
    if l.full_name.startswith(my_handle):
        for m in api.GetListMembers(l.id):
            following_mapping[m.id].append(l)

in_no_list = set(following).difference(set(following_mapping.keys()))

print("%d following not in lists." % len(in_no_list))

in_no_list_members = [api.GetUser(elem) for elem in tqdm(in_no_list)]

with open("in_no_list_members.pickle", "wb") as f:
    pickle.dump(in_no_list_members, f)

df = pd.DataFrame(data=[elem.AsDict() for elem in in_no_list_members],
                  columns=["name", "screen_name"])
df["url"] = "https://www.twitter.com/" + df.screen_name
df.head()