getfriends.py

"""Simple demo script explaining how to extract twitter users'
friend lists using the python twitter package."""
import time
import twitter
api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='your_key',
                  consumer_secret='your_secret',
                  access_token_key='your_token_key',
                  access_token_secret='your_token_secret')
while not api.GetRateLimitStatus()\
                  ['resources']['friends']['/friends/ids']['remaining']:
  time.sleep(60)
print list(api.GetFriendIDs(screen_name="NotDirkHesse"))