Write a Twitter Bot with Python tweepy to Unfollow Non-Followers from the Command Line
What do you call those people who don’t follow you back on Twitter?
Celebrities? News outlets? Using the Python tweepy library, we will
write a bot to easily unfollow non-followers from the command line.
First, log in to
http://dev.twitter.com and create a new application.
The create a file,
keys.py , and fill it in with the appropriate information:
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keys = dict(
screen_name = 'xxxxxxxxx'
consumer_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
consumer_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
access_token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
access_token_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
)
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Now create a file,
unfollow.py , and add the following(pun intended):
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#! /usr/bin/python
import tweepy
from keys import keys
SCREEN_NAME = keys['screen_name']
CONSUMER_KEY = keys['consumer_key']
CONSUMER_SECRET = keys['consumer_secret']
ACCESS_TOKEN = keys['access_token']
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = keys['access_token_secret']
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
followers = api.followers_ids(SCREEN_NAME)
friends = api.friends_ids(SCREEN_NAME)
for f in friends:
if f not in followers:
print "Unfollow {0}?".format(api.get_user(f).screen_name)
if raw_input("Y/N?") == 'y' or 'Y':
api.destroy_friendship(f)
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To run it from the command line:
You will be prompted to unfollow the non-followers you are currently following. Goodbye, parasites!
Let’s step through it.
The
first few blocks should be familiar to you by now: we import tweepy,
our keys, and connect to the Twitter API. In the next two blocks perform
a similar role, we create lists, and populate them with followers and
friends.
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followers = api.followers_ids(SCREEN_NAME)
friends = api.friends_ids(SCREEN_NAME)
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Next, we iterate over
friends and use an if statement to check whether or not each element of friends is in
followers . Before we destroy the friendship, we ask for verification.
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for f in friends:
if f not in followers:
print "Unfollow {0}?".format(api.get_user(f).screen_name)
if raw_input("Y/N?") == 'y' or 'Y':
api.destroy_friendship(f)
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It’s
a simple matter of setting this up to run automatically with a cron
job. That’s against Twitter’s Best Practices, so I’ll leave you to
figure it out for yourself.
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