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Silly tweepy / python script to get names and followers count on the Twitter
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fetch-followers.py
import tweepy
# Keys, tokens and secrets
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""
# Tweepy OAuthHandler
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
targets = [] # All your targets here
for target in targets:
user = api.get_user(target)
print(user.name, user.followers_count)
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Hi, I'm trying to use the code to store user.name and user.followers_count into a dataframe but I'm not able to do it.

May I know how I can do that?

Thanks!

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