Follow Friday

ff.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI
from collections import Counter
import json
import time
import logging


# Edit ff.py for your account. Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ to get your API keys. 
# Don't forget to fill in your  screen name (or someone else's).

CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ''

USER = 'eiaine'

# adjust according to desired timeframe
# I have it starting from a year ago
YEAR_AGO = 948009043389333504


def main():
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

    api = TwitterAPI(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

    newest = None
    counter = Counter([])
    
    while True:
        if newest and int(newest) < YEAR_AGO:
            break

        favs_raw = api.request('favorites/list', 
            {'screen_name': USER, 'count': 200, 'since_id': YEAR_AGO, 'max_id': newest, 'include_entities': False})
        favs = json.loads(favs_raw.response.text)
        
        if len(favs) == 0:
            break

        newest = favs[-1]["id"] - 1
        logging.info(newest)

        friends = [f["user"]["id_str"] for f in favs if not f["in_reply_to_status_id"]]

        counter += Counter(friends)
        logging.info(counter.most_common(50))

        # Optional; use if rate limiting is an issue
        # time.sleep(20)

    top = counter.most_common(20)
    top = [t[0] for t in top]
    friends_raw = api.request('users/lookup', {'user_id': top}) 
    friends = json.loads(friends_raw.response.text)
    for friend in friends:
        print(friend["screen_name"])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()