Get All Follower IDs in Twitter by Tweepy

Question

Is it possible to get the full follower list of an account who has more than one million followers, like McDonald's?

I use Tweepy and follow the code:

c = tweepy.Cursor(api.followers_ids, id = 'McDonalds') ids = [] for page in c.pages():      ids.append(page) 

I also try this:

for id in c.items():     ids.append(id) 

But I always got the 'Rate limit exceeded' error and there were only 5000 follower ids.

Answer 1

In order to avoid rate limit, you can/should wait before the next follower page request. Looks hacky, but works:

import time import tweepy  auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(..., ...) auth.set_access_token(..., ...)  api = tweepy.API(auth)  ids = [] for page in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers_ids, screen_name="McDonalds").pages():     ids.extend(page)     time.sleep(60)  print len(ids) 

Hope that helps.