Script that prints a list of all twitter accounts that I follow

get-my-twitter-follows.py

# get the list of accounts i follow on twitter
# and print out their URLs, so i can visit 
# some of them randomly during coding breaks
# and unfollow accounts that don't add value

import tweepy

# twitter credentials
# SEARCH: how to get twitter credentials
# SEE: https://www.jcchouinard.com/twitter-api-credentials/
consumer_key = "TODO"
consumer_secret = "TODO"
access_token = "TODO"
access_token_secret = "TODO"

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

# get the list of accounts i follow on twitter
# NOTE: this only returns id's (not names, or urls)
friends = api.get_friend_ids()

# break the list into chunks of 50 because
# the twitter api only allows 100 ids per request
chunks = [friends[x:x+50] for x in range(0, len(friends), 50)]

# for each chunk, get the user objects
# and print out their screen_names
for chunk in chunks:
    users = api.lookup_users(user_id=chunk)
    for user in users:
        print (user.screen_name)