Use lists instead of following?

[erickhun]

Hi,

I have most of the people I "follow" on private lists. would that be possible to use that instead of following?

Thank you!

[eleurent]

Hi @erickhun

Yes, that could easily be done by replacing the calls to api.GetFriends() and api.GetFollowers() in fetch_users by a call to api.GetLists followed by a call to api.GetListMembers

[erickhun]

@eleurent thanks! Would you consider to merge if I do a PR on that?

Looks like using the --graph-nodes param would be appropriate?

[eleurent]

@eleurent thanks! Would you consider to merge if I do a PR on that?

Of course!

Looks like using the --graph-nodes param would be appropriate?

You're right. Actually, the current code is a bit messy since the source of nodes is set at several places:

• the (user|tweets) argument chooses whether we get the friends AND followers of a specific user, or the authors of tweets from a search query.
• IF the user mode was selected, we fetch both friends and followers (regardless of the --graph-nodes param) in order to build the set of all relevant users used to filter relationships. And only then do we use the --graph-nodes param to select the list of users whose relationships we want to query. This was done to avoid fetching twice the relationships of mutuals, when successively plotting the two graphs of friends and followers.

But I think this could be simplified to a single (friends | followers | lists | tweets) parameter, at the cost of a little bit of efficiency.

[nadesai]

FYI: #18 may be relevant as an example of adding a new mode.