check if a user is verified in twitter by twitter api

Question

I am doing a project to identify if a user is a celebrity in Twitter. Are there any ways to check if a user in Twitter is verified as celebrity? I know a celebrity would identified with a blue badge in the twitter profile. But how could I retrieve the information through Twitter API and see if there is a blue badge?

Answer 1

Each Twitter user object from /users/show comes with a verified boolean field. If the user is verified, it will be true; otherwise it will be false.

For example, a typical response from my Twitter profile might look like:

{
  "name": "John Feminella",
  "screen_name": "jxxf",
  # ...
  "verified": true,          # True if the user is verified, false otherwise.
  # ...
}