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Getting all users mentioned in a tweet text and their user ID's

When I search for a tweet containing certain words, I want to check for users mentioned in those tweets that say specifically 'follow @someoneSo' so I could keep track of them and check out their profiles if they seem like relevant accounts, and hopefully, follow some accounts that I like at the end of it.

Is there something similar to Discord's message.mentions.users where it returns a list of users mentioned in a tweet text?

For example, if a tweet text = 'dvffegregre rg ADQEW follow @chad @lee efkneknen' or tweet text = 'dvffegregre rg ADQEW follow these guys @chad @lee efkneknen', my script would be able to follow @chad and @lee

Solution 
  • text = 'dvffegregre rg ADQEW follow @chad @lee efkneknen'
textlist = text.split(' ')
users = []
if 'follow' in textlist:
    for subtext in textlist:
        if subtext.startswith('@'):
            API.create_friendship(subtext.strip('@'))

    I think this should work for your purpose.