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Get usernames for a retweet?

How can I view the usernames for each retweet from my timeline using Python-Twitter? Here is what I have so far which brings back the timeline without the re-tweet usernames:

import twitter
api = twitter.Api(xxxxxx)
statuses = api.GetUserTimeline('username', include_rts=True)
for tweet in statuses:
    print tweet

The method that I think you would use is GetTweets which requires a statusID, I am not sure how you would pass the status ID from the timeline call to the GetRetweets call?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • Try this:

    import twitter

t = twitter.Api(...)

statuses = t.GetUserTimeline('username', include_rts=True)

for tweet in statuses:
    retweets = t.GetRetweets(tweet.GetId())
    users = [retweet.GetUser().GetScreenName() for retweet in retweets]
    print tweet.GetId(), users

    Hope that helps.