Tweepy - Multiple User Search

Question

Trying to perform what I thought was a very basic exercise. I have a list of 7000+ customers and I want to import some of their attributes from twitter. I am trying to figure out how to input several user names into my tweepy query, but I am not getting any luck with below.

#!/usr/bin/python
import tweepy
import csv #Import csv
import os

# Consumer keys and access tokens, used for OAuth
consumer_key = 'MINE'
consumer_secret = 'MINE'
access_token = 'MINE'
access_token_secret = 'MINE'

# OAuth process, using the keys and tokens
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)


api = tweepy.API(auth)
# Open/Create a file to append data
csvFile = open('ID.csv', 'a')
#Use csv Writer
csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile)

users = ('IBM' or 'massmutual')
user = api.get_user(screen_name = users)

csvWriter.writerow([user.screen_name, user.id, user.followers_count, user.description.encode('utf-8')])

print user.id
csvFile.close()

Answer 1

You will have to do it in a loop, you will make list of users and get user instance for all one by one in loop.

#!/usr/bin/python
import tweepy
import csv #Import csv
import os

# Consumer keys and access tokens, used for OAuth
consumer_key = 'MINE'
consumer_secret = 'MINE'
access_token = 'MINE'
access_token_secret = 'MINE'

# OAuth process, using the keys and tokens
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)


api = tweepy.API(auth)
# Open/Create a file to append data
csvFile = open('ID.csv', 'a')
#Use csv Writer
csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile)

users = ['IBM','massmutual','user3',.......]
for user_name in users:
    user = api.get_user(screen_name = user_name)
    csvWriter.writerow([user.screen_name, user.id, user.followers_count, user.description.encode('utf-8')])
    print user.id


csvFile.close()