Follow Friday

ff.py

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

# Forked from: https://gist.github.com/elaineo/b9d73ce88ac418d4fed8128231bc15e7
# Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ to get your v2 API keys. 

API_KEY = ''
API_KEY_SECRET = ''
# Look up your numeric ID at: https://codeofaninja.com/tools/find-twitter-id/
MY_TWITTER_ID = ''

# Current year, minus 1. Stop scraping likes here.
LAST_YEAR = '2020'

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

    api = TwitterAPI(API_KEY, API_KEY_SECRET, auth_type='oAuth2', api_version='2')

    counter = Counter([])
    
    pagination_token = None
    while True:
        tweets = api.request(f'users/:{MY_TWITTER_ID}/liked_tweets', 
                {'expansions': 'author_id', 'tweet.fields': 'created_at', 'pagination_token': pagination_token})

        print(tweets)
        if all(tweet.get('created_at')[0:4] == '2020' for tweet in tweets):
            break

        for t in tweets:
            counter[t.get('author_id')] += 1

        print(counter)
        pagination_token = tweets.json()['meta']['next_token']
        # Stick to rate limit imposed by Twitter
        time.sleep(20)

    top = [t[0] for t in counter.most_common(50)]
    friends = api.request("users", {'ids': ','.join(top)})
    for friend in friends:
        print(f"@{friend.get('username')} ({counter[friend.get('id')]})")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()