testfriend.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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# twitter-friends
#  - lists all of a given user's friends (ie, followees)
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from twitter import *

# create twitter API object
consumer_key = "O5Z1KINSBaDEQgTBB3FA"
consumer_secret = "kf42pzVoDrmP4hoe9LNQW5t765J2zEspqdHQhotw"
access_key = "2172397754-TrCNJSgVarJIMnYb6uLXFzfI76zI7m8cfy5zIvL"
access_secret = "FNiDwwbgs0WiElgaJ2hVECnsyavUKIQ3IP7JNr4BkiOhx"

# create twitter API object
auth = OAuth(access_key, access_secret, consumer_key, consumer_secret)
twitter = Twitter(auth = auth)


# this is the user whose friends we will list
username = "slander36"

# perform a basic search 
# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/friends/ids
query = twitter.friends.ids(screen_name = username)

# tell the user how many friends we've found.
# note that the twitter API will NOT immediately give us any more 
# information about friends except their numeric IDs...
print "found %d friends" % (len(query["ids"]))

# now we loop through them to pull out more info, in blocks of 100.
for n in range(0, len(query["ids"]), 100):
        ids = query["ids"][n:n+100]

        # create a subquery, looking up information about these users
        # twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/lookup
        subquery = twitter.users.lookup(user_id = ids)

        for user in subquery:
                # now print out user info, starring any users that are Verified.
                verified = " "
                if user["verified"]:
                        verified = "*"
                print " [%s] %s" % (verified, user["screen_name"])