Get Twitter Followers in Python

get_twitter_followers.py

import twitter
from twitter import TwitterError
 
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = 'your consumer key'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = 'your consumer secret'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = 'your token key'
TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET = 'your token secret'
    
def get_twitter_followers():
    try:
        api = twitter.Api( \
        consumer_key=TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, \
        consumer_secret=TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, \
        access_token_key=TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, \
        access_token_secret=TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET)
    except TwitterError:
        # do something on error (like on twitter read limit)
    return api.VerifyCredentials().followers_count