How to get a list of followers or following?

[caoptson]

i always get response

array
’request’ => string ‘/1/statuses/followers/792875406.json’ (length=36)
‘error’ => string ‘Not authorized’ (length=14)

[RajeshreddyM1]

it’s only retrieving the first 100 followers, how should I get the remaining in addition to the first 100

[RamChandraDash]

how to use this code in my profile… please guide me…

[kejoff]

I’m stucked to get the famous 5000 IDs. I got only 300. Could somebody help me on this issue. Here is my code

1st file : getfollowers.php

<?php require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php'); $consumerKey = 'key'; $consumerKeySecret = 'secret_key'; $accessToken = 'token'; $accessTokenSecret = 'token_secret'; $settings = array( 'oauth_access_token' => $accessToken, 'oauth_access_token_secret' => $accessTokenSecret, 'consumer_key' => $consumerKey, 'consumer_secret' => $consumerKeySecret ); $i = 0; $cursor = -1; do { $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json'; $getfield = '?cursor='.$cursor.'&screen_name=peugeot&skip_status=true&include_user_entities=false'; $requestMethod = 'GET'; $twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings); $response = $twitter->setGetfield($getfield) ->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod) ->performRequest(); $response = json_decode($response, true); $errors = $response["errors"]; if (!empty($errors)) { foreach($errors as $error){ $code = $error['code']; $msg = $error['message']; echo "

Error " . $code . ": " . $msg; } $cursor = 0; } else { $users = $response['users']; foreach($users as $user){ $thumb = $user['profile_image_url']; $url = $user['screen_name']; $name = $user['name']; echo "" . ""; $i++; } $cursor = $response["next_cursor"]; } } while ( $cursor != 0 ); if (!empty($users)) { echo '

Total: ' . $i; } ?>

2nd file : TwitterAPIexchange

class TwitterAPIExchange
{
private $oauth_access_token;
private $oauth_access_token_secret;
private $consumer_key;
private $consumer_secret;
private $postfields;
private $getfield;
protected $oauth;
public $url;

/**
 * Create the API access object. Requires an array of settings::
 * oauth access token, oauth access token secret, consumer key, consumer secret
 * These are all available by creating your own application on dev.twitter.com
 * Requires the cURL library
 * 
 * @param array $settings
 */
public function __construct(array $settings)
{
    if (!in_array('curl', get_loaded_extensions())) 
    {
        throw new Exception('You need to install cURL, see: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/install.html');
    }
    
    if (!isset($settings['oauth_access_token'])
        || !isset($settings['oauth_access_token_secret'])
        || !isset($settings['consumer_key'])
        || !isset($settings['consumer_secret']))
    {
        throw new Exception('Make sure you are passing in the correct parameters');
    }

    $this->oauth_access_token = $settings['oauth_access_token'];
    $this->oauth_access_token_secret = $settings['oauth_access_token_secret'];
    $this->consumer_key = $settings['consumer_key'];
    $this->consumer_secret = $settings['consumer_secret'];
}

/**
 * Set postfields array, example: array('screen_name' => 'J7mbo')
 * 
 * @param array $array Array of parameters to send to API
 * @return \TwitterAPIExchange Instance of self for method chaining
 */
public function setPostfields(array $array)
{
    if (!is_null($this->getGetfield())) 
    { 
        throw new Exception('You can only choose get OR post fields.'); 
    }
    $this->postfields = $array;
    return $this;
}

/**
 * Set getfield string, example: '?screen_name=J7mbo'
 * 
 * @param string $string Get key and value pairs as string
 * @return \TwitterAPIExchange Instance of self for method chaining
 */
public function setGetfield($string)
{
    if (!is_null($this->getPostfields())) 
    { 
        throw new Exception('You can only choose get OR post fields.'); 
    }
    
    $this->getfield = $string;
    return $this;
}

/**
 * Get getfield string (simple getter)
 * 
 * @return string $this->getfields
 */
public function getGetfield()
{
    return $this->getfield;
}

/**
 * Get postfields array (simple getter)
 * 
 * @return array $this->postfields
 */
public function getPostfields()
{
    return $this->postfields;
}

/**
 * Build the Oauth object using params set in construct and additionals
 * passed to this method. For v1.1, see: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
 * 
 * @param string $url The API url to use. Example: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json
 * @param string $requestMethod Either POST or GET
 * @return \TwitterAPIExchange Instance of self for method chaining
 */
public function buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
{
    if (strtolower($requestMethod) !== 'post' && strtolower($requestMethod) !== 'get')
    {
        throw new Exception('Request method must be either POST or GET');
    }
    
    $consumer_key = $this->consumer_key;
    $consumer_secret = $this->consumer_secret;
    $oauth_access_token = $this->oauth_access_token;
    $oauth_access_token_secret = $this->oauth_access_token_secret;
    
    $oauth = array( 
        'oauth_consumer_key' => $consumer_key,
        'oauth_nonce' => time(),
        'oauth_signature_method' => 'HMAC-SHA1',
        'oauth_token' => $oauth_access_token,
        'oauth_timestamp' => time(),
        'oauth_version' => '1.0'
    );
    
    $getfield = $this->getGetfield();
    
    if (!is_null($getfield))
    {
        $getfields = str_replace('?', '', explode('&', $getfield));
        foreach ($getfields as $g)
        {
            $split = explode('=', $g);
            $oauth[$split[0]] = $split[1];
        }
    }
    
    $base_info = $this->buildBaseString($url, $requestMethod, $oauth);
    $composite_key = rawurlencode($consumer_secret) . '&' . rawurlencode($oauth_access_token_secret);
    $oauth_signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $base_info, $composite_key, true));
    $oauth['oauth_signature'] = $oauth_signature;
    
    $this->url = $url;
    $this->oauth = $oauth;
    
    return $this;
}

/**
 * Perform the acual data retrieval from the API
 * 
 * @param boolean optional $return If true, returns data. 
 * @return json If $return param is true, returns json data.
 */
public function performRequest($return = true)
{
    if (!is_bool($return)) 
    { 
        throw new Exception('performRequest parameter must be true or false'); 
    }
    
    $header = array($this->buildAuthorizationHeader($this->oauth), 'Expect:');
    
    $getfield = $this->getGetfield();
    $postfields = $this->getPostfields();

    $options = array( 
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $header,
        CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
        CURLOPT_URL => $this->url,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false
    );

    if (!is_null($postfields))
    {
        $options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = $postfields;
    }
    else
    {
        if ($getfield !== '')
        {
            $options[CURLOPT_URL] .= $getfield;
        }
    }

    $feed = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($feed, $options);
    $json = curl_exec($feed);
    curl_close($feed);

    if ($return) { return $json; }
}

/**
 * Private method to generate the base string used by cURL
 * 
 * @param string $baseURI
 * @param string $method
 * @param string $params
 * @return string Built base string
 */
private function buildBaseString($baseURI, $method, $params) 
{
    $return = array();
    ksort($params);
    
    foreach($params as $key=>$value)
    {
        $return[] = "$key=" . $value;
    }
    
    return $method . "&" . rawurlencode($baseURI) . '&' . rawurlencode(implode('&', $return)); 
}

/**
 * Private method to generate authorization header used by cURL
 * 
 * @param array $oauth Array of oauth data generated by buildOauth()
 * @return string $return Header used by cURL for request
 */    
private function buildAuthorizationHeader($oauth) 
{
    $return = 'Authorization: OAuth ';
    $values = array();
    
    foreach($oauth as $key => $value)
    {
        $values[] = "$key=\"" . rawurlencode($value) . "\"";
    }
    $return .= implode(', ', $values);
    return $return;
}

}

Thanks for your help

[darkpoltweeter]

Hi since moving to API 1.1 I keep getting the following error message when I try to get a list of my followers.

{“errors”:[{“message”:“Bad Authentication data”,“code”:215}]}

Basically the script is using the same Twitter / oAuth classes as most Wordpress plugins do (including my own) and I have changed line 29 in the Twitter class to:

/* Set up the API root URL. */
public $host = “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/”;

Which resolved the issue in my own WordPress plugins. However I just cannot seem to get a list of my followers back even if I can send tweets out.

My scripts are run from CRON jobs and I connect to Twitter with my application consumer key/secret and access key/secret and the authentication message comes back that I am logged in.

I then try and access the URL that should return your followers in the new Twitter 1.1 API e.g

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json?screen_name=mytwitteraccount

However even though I am logged in I cannot get a response.

I am using the inbuilt Twitter method http which uses CURL and passes your consumer / access keys and secrets along with all requests.

$response =$oauth->http(“https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json?screen_name=mytwitteraccount","GET”);

However even though the oauth class is telling me that the credentials for my screen name are valid, when I try to make a GET request to get the JSON for my followers list I get back the Bad Authentication 215 error message:

The full code is below:

// a simple debug statement echo/print_r ShowDebug("load twitter");

// include the twitter class which also includes the oauth class
require_once(‘twitter.class.php’ );

ShowDebug(“loaded twitter class”);

// Twitter settings - these are fake so don’t try and use them!
$consumersecret = “ghweweLGhQxA2zGiHrUFW6X8HTdsJPOrau0fw24veUU”;
$consumerkey = “1pRwT3gNcmmnLKnrp9g”;

$accessToken = “112534562-Jj5QLN7XpRNgKjHi289DvBWDrmt1jxX2Wink5tTvbRe”;
$accessTokenSecret = “lbXdFtGttkjEGpmgGqsAACftLfseCvemxfNPKrCeTmENtUOk”;

ShowDebug("connect with access token = " . $accessToken . " and secret = " . $accessTokenSecret);

// pass my keys
$oauth = new TwitterOAuth($consumerkey, $consumersecret, $accessToken, $accessTokenSecret);

ShowDebug(“VERIFY ACCOUNT WITH OAUTH”);

// Send an API request to verify credentials
$credentials = $oauth->get(“account/verify_credentials”);

// a print_r shows me all my details here - so I am verified!
print_r($credentials);

// so I should be logged in now
if(!empty($credentials->screen_name))
{
ShowDebug( “Connected as @” . $credentials->screen_name);

ShowDebug("check for new followers");


$followers_url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json?screen_name=myscreenname";

$response =	$oauth->http($followers_url,"GET");

ShowDebug($response);
ShowDebug("status is " . $oauth->http_code);

}

And the debug I get back is the following:

load twitter
load oauth
do class
OAuthToken loaded
loaded twitter class
connect with access token = 112534562-Jj5QLN7XpRNgKjHi289DvBWDrmt1jxX2Wink5tTvbRe and secret = lbXdFtGttkjEGpmgGqsAACftLfseCvemxfNPKrCeTmENtUOk
VERIFY ACCOUNT WITH OAUTH
Connected as @MyTwitterAccount
check for new followers
{“errors”:[{“message”:“Bad Authentication data”,“code”:215}]}
status is 400

If anyone can help me then please let me have your knowledge! Twitter so far haven’t helped at all.

And before anyone asks

Yes I have an application set up for my Twitter account to carry out these requests.
Yes I have double checked my consumer and access keys.
The URL to get the follower list was copied direct from the twitter developer site.

Also if instead of trying to get a list of followers back I run this code instead

$replymsg = "a test message";

	$res = $oauth->post(
			'statuses/update', 
			array(
				'status' => $replymsg,
				'source' => 'Strictly Tweetbot'
			)
		);



	if(isset($res->error) && !empty($res->error)){

		ShowDebug("An error occurred posting $replymsg to $name - " . $res->error);	

	}else{
		
		ShowDebug("TWEET SENT OK");

		$success = true;
	}

I can send a tweet. Therefore I am authenticated properly.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[darkpoltweeter]

Dont worry I have fixed it all

A simple change from a file_get_contents to

$response = $oauth->get($followers_url);

and then either loop through the JSON or convert it to a string with json_encode and a quick regex will give you just screen names without all the rest e.g

$body = json_encode($response);

preg_match_all(’@“screen_name”:"([\s\S]+?)",@i’,$body,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);

then a loop through the matches with a send tweet and hey presto - fixed!

I wish I had known about this before tonight - I have spent hours fixing all this! Plus all my old yahoo pipes which were taking in RSS feeds of statuses for Retweeting and so on aren’t working now so I will have to come up with a special program to do it myself.

PAIN IN XXXXX!!!

[luzparet]

why this code does not work?

$toa = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $ROW[‘tw_user_access_token’], $ROW[‘tw_access_token_secret’]);

$followers = $toa->get('followers/ids', array());
$friends = $toa->get('friends/ids', array());

foreach ($followers->ids as $i => $id) {

    if (empty($friends->ids) or !in_array($id, $friends->ids)) {
        $ret = $toa->post('friendships/create', array('user_id' => $id));
		if ($i++ > 20) break;
		sleep(rand(3,30));
    }

}
}

[sinokt]

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[PrashantAggar16]

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[rahkes50anug]

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[rahkes50anug]

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\xampp\htdocs\abc\F14\user\tw.php on line 97

[mayur]

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[andypiper]