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How to extract screen_name from a tweet and use that to get all the past favorites of that user?

I want to search the tweets, extract the screen_name from the statuses and use that to get the past favorite tweets of that screen_name. Now I donot know how to extract the screen_names from statuses and then how to use to get past favorites. This is my code(the problem is with the last line): 

import tweepy
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = '' 
access_secret = ''
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
search_results = tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q="Ganesh World").items()

for i in search_results:
    print i.text.encode('utf-8')
    print   api.favorites([i.screen_name])

It is throwing AttributeError:Status object has no attribute 'screen_name'

Solution

  • No need to waste another API call, You can fetch it from inner data elements, i.e. from author , and within that from its json like this:

    for i in search_results:
    print i.author._json['screen_name']