remove matching twitter followers

readme.md

README

• This script will check each of the user from user_list if the user in the followers_list it will remove the user from your followers

• For that first it will block the matching user one by one and then unblock them. If you are following your matching followers, you won't be subscribed to them anymore once you run this job.

• Install tweepy module using pip. To install tweepy run below command in your terminal.

• pip install tweepy

• Please replace consumer_key and consumer_secret. Visit https://apps.twitter.com to get your consumer_key and consumer_secret.

• Once you generate consumer key create an access token from same twitter page. Replace access_token and access_token_secret with provided values. Then run the script.

remove.py

import tweepy

consumer_key = '<consumer_key>'
consumer_secret = '<consumer_secret>'
access_token = '<access_token>'
access_token_secret = '<access_token_secret>'
author = 'my_twitter_user_name'

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

api = tweepy.API(auth)

followers = []
for page in tweepy.Cursor(api.get_follower_ids, screen_name=author).pages():
    followers.extend(page)

user_list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

for user in user_list:
    if user in followers:
        api.create_block(user)
        api.destroy_block(user)
        print(user)