How to extract information from Tweepy ResultSet

Question

How do I interact with the Tweepy Result set? How can I extract information? It kinda looks like a list or a dictionary, but I'm having trouble extracting specific elements of it.

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

api = tweepy.API(auth)

print(type(api.favorites('twitter')))
Out[1]: <class 'tweepy.models.ResultSet'>

print(api.favorites('twitter'))
Out[2]: Status(favorited=False, source='Twitter for iPhone', in_reply_to_status_id=None, coordinates=None, text='Starting the Twitter chat now. https://t.co[...]

I've never dealt with an object like ResultSet before, so I'm not sure how I can extract information from it. I noticed that it works a bit like a list, in that I can get a specific tweet from the list like this:

print(api.favorites('twitter')[1])

But I cant get embedded elements like this:

print(api.favorites('twitter')[1][0])
Out[3]: TypeError: 'Status' object does not support indexing

or like this:

print(api.favorites('twitter')[1]['favorited'])
Out[4]: TypeError: 'Status' object is not subscriptable

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

tweepy.ResultSet is a subclass of a Python's list:

class ResultSet(list):
    """A list like object that holds results from a Twitter API query."""

The elements in the ResultSet can be of different types - statuses, users, relations etc.

Every element in your particular ResultSet is a Status instance, which allows the attribute access (via dot notation) to the twitter status properties:

result_set = api.favorites('twitter')
status = result_set[0]
print(status.favorited)