twitter-follow-converter.py

# https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-tweepy-getting-the-id-of-a-user/

import tweepy
import json
import time
import urllib.request

# You get these from https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps
# New signups at https://developer.twitter.com
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

def doParse(url, header): 
    data = None
    lines = []

    with open(url) as data_file:    
        data = json.load(data_file)

    print("Found " + str(len(data)) + " " + header)

    for i, obj in enumerate(data):
        try:
            user_id = int(obj[header]["accountId"])
            user = api.get_user(user_id=user_id)
            
            lines.append(user.screen_name)
            lines.append(user.name)
            lines.append(user.description)
            
            # This part resolves t.co urls. If you have a t.co url already,
            # you can do this without Twitter API access.
            try:
                req = urllib.request.urlopen(user.url)
                lines.append(req.url)
                print("  ...Resolved url " + req.url)
            except:
                print("  ...No url available")

            lines.append("")
            print("Parsed " + str(i+1) + " / " + str(len(data)) + " " + header)
        except:
            print("Error parsing " + str(i+1) + " / " + str(len(data)) + " " + header)
        
        time.sleep(1.1) # You need to make less than than 1 API request per second.

    with open(header + ".txt", "w") as f:
        f.write('\n'.join(lines))
        f.close()

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doParse("source/following.json", "following")
doParse("source/follower.json", "follower")