python 3.x - How to get Twitter followers list? -


i working on web scraping project , follower data public twitter account. find request url can't seem find on twitter. wondering how can list of followers. using python 3

this page describes how it.

you'll need install tweepy , use following code:

import tweepy import time #insert twitter keys here consumer_key ='xxxxxxx' consumer_secret='xxxxxxx' access_token='xxxxxxx' access_secret='xxxxxxx' twitter_handle='handle'  auth = tweepy.auth.oauthhandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret) api = tweepy.api(auth)  list= open('twitter_followers.txt','w')  if(api.verify_credentials):     print 'we logged in'  user = tweepy.cursor(api.followers, screen_name=twitter_handle).items()  while true:     try:         u = next(user)         list.write(u.screen_name +' \n')      except:         time.sleep(15*60)         print 'we got timeout ... sleeping 15 minutes'         u = next(user)         list.write(u.screen_name +' \n') list.close() 

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