Is there any way to get back all the followers of a user? Accounts with approximately 100k followers up to 1M.
Thanks.
I don’t get what you mean by “rank limit”
The way to get all the followers is to use GET followers/ids | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform, getting 5000 ids at a time.
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It is possible to get more than 5000 ids at a time using the standart API or the academic API?
No, 5000 ids per call is the max, so you have to paginate, making 15 calls in 15 minutes and wait for the rate limit to reset, make another 15 calls… etc until you’ve crawled all of them.
Academic API is for Search Only. and “Standard” in v2 has a lower rate limit for getting followers than v1.1. So right now, GET followers/ids | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform is the fastest way to do it.
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Is the same limit if I want to retrieve users instead of only users_id? or it’s lower limit?
Thanks.
If you want to get the full user info you can use GET users/lookup | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform to get 100 of them at a time, given IDs.
Otherwise, using GET followers/list | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform returns users instead of IDs but is significantly slower because it returns 200 users per call, as opposed to 5000 ids, so it will take way longer to crawl all of them for a popular account.
We’re not able to help you with requests to “skip” the rate limits - the rate limits are in place to ensure system stability and fair access. We realise that they may be frustrating in some cases, and we do what we can to continue to improve API access, but please understand that it is not reasonable to come to our developer forums and request the ability to circumvent the rate limits. That request is also against the developer policy and agreement that you signed up to when you applied for your developer account (specifically Developer Agreement II. D, at the time of posting this response).
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Oh okay, i’m gonna delete this topic. Accept my apology.
