twitter maintenance

twitter_follow_unfollow.py

"""
snippet for twitter bots, follow back all followers, unfollow unfollowers (with exceptions) 
"""
import tweepy
from secrets import CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
    
followers = []
for block in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers_ids, SCREEN_NAME).items():
  followers += [block]
  
friends = []  
for block in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends_ids, SCREEN_NAME).items():
  friends += [block]

to_follow = list(set(followers).difference(friends))

# do follow backs
for f in to_follow:
      try:
        api.create_friendship(f)
        print('followed: ' + api.get_user(f).screen_name)
      except tweepy.error.TweepError, e:
          if 'unable to follow more' in  e.message[0]['message']:
              print(e.message[0]['message'])
              break
          if 'already requested' in  e.message[0]['message']:
              pass

# unfollow unfollowers 
exceptions = ['Kaleidopix']
for f in friends:
    if f not in followers:
        if api.get_user(f).screen_name not in exceptions:
            print "Unfollowing {0}".format(api.get_user(f).screen_name)
            api.destroy_friendship(f)