Find most valuable followers on Twitter

twitter-mvf.py

from twitter import Twitter, OAuth
import json

auth_token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
auth_token_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
consumer_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
consumer_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'


user = "driven_by_data"


t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(auth_token, auth_token_secret, consumer_key, consumer_secret))

def get_follower_ids(user):
	out = []
	cur = -1
	while cur != 0:
		l = t.followers.ids(screen_name=user, cursor=cur)
		out += l['ids']
		cur = l['next_cursor']
	return out


def get_followers(user):
	import json
	follower_ids = get_follower_ids(user)
	k = len(follower_ids)
	i = 0
	try:
		cached = json.loads(open('follower_'+user+'.json','r').read())
	except:
		cached = []
	if len(cached) == k:
		followers = cached
	else:
		followers = []
		while i < k:
			followers += t.users.lookup(user_id=','.join(map(str, follower_ids[i:i+100])))
			i += 100
		open('follower_'+user+'.json','w').write(json.dumps(followers))
	return followers
         
followers = get_followers(user)
followers = sorted(followers, key=lambda user: user['followers_count']*-1)

for u in followers[:10]: 
	print u['screen_name'], u['followers_count']