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Pull the screen name of followers given a twitter user using Tweepy. Output options for the Tweepy User object structure is here (may be outdated): http://tkang.blogspot.com/2011/01/tweepytwitter-api-user-object-structure.html
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import logging
import tweepy
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
TWEEPY_CONSUMER_KEY = '#'
TWEEPY_CONSUMER_SECRET = '#'
TWEEPY_ACCESS_TOKEN = '#'
TWEEPY_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = '#'
def retrieve_followers_from_user(user):
''' polls twitter for whom a user is following and returns their screen name and location '''
auth1 = tweepy.auth.OAuthHandler(TWEEPY_CONSUMER_KEY, TWEEPY_CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth1.set_access_token(TWEEPY_ACCESS_TOKEN, TWEEPY_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth1)
for user in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name=user).items():
logging.debug('%s (%s)' % (user.screen_name, user.location))
if __name__ == '__main__':
retrieve_followers_from_user('ChrisLKeller')
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this code works correctly... (y) grt. thanks a lot

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