We already know how to implement functionality for automatic adding statuses to twitter. Today we will implement a functionality for automatic downloading a number of your twitter followers in python (django).

Everything via twitter API.

We will use only one method from this API, so we need to read “Twitter REST API Method: followers ids” section in this documentation. You can find this section here.

Let’s fun.

We will download amount of followers of @develway. That’s an account of a website for IT specialists and programmers.

Open *.py file (for example main/views.py) and add there a new method:

def downloadTwitterFollowers(request):
	import urllib2, urllib
    from django.utils import simplejson

	request = urllib2.Request('http://twitter.com/followers/ids.json?screen_name=develway&cursor=-1')
	response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

	ids = response.read()
	ids = simplejson.loads(ids)

	followers = len(ids['ids'])

	return HttpResponse('Amount of followers: ' + str(followers))

Now add new view to your urls.py…

Open the urls.py file and add there something like:

(r'^download-twitter-followers/$', 'ourProject.main.views.downloadTwitterFollowers'),

Save it and try to run http://yourdomain.com/download-twitter-followers/ in your web browser.

Easy, isn’t it?

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