Find specific friend ids for each user

[matildegiacche1]

Hi, Is it possible search a specific list of friends ids across a list of users?

I need to find 200k friends across 60M users, and the rate limit slows down my research.

Thanks for helping me Matilde

[IgorBrigadir]

Answering here:

Find specific friends ids for each user

In v2 you only have the GET /2/users/:id/following | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform endpoint, so you will need to retrieve all friends to match up the ones you’re interested in. In v1.1 the https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-friends-ids endpoint is more efficient than the v2 endpoint. It gives you 5000 IDs per call instead of 1000 users max for the v2 endpoint. there is also GET friendships/show | Docs | Twitter …