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scraperwiki / twitter-follows-tool

Get users who follow or are following a particular user; tool now defunct, though the code is here for reference.
https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2014/08/the-story-of-getting-twitter-data-and-its-missing-middle/
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Automatically allow >100k followers when paying #67

Closed frabcus closed 10 years ago

frabcus commented 10 years ago

Rather than us having to enable manually.

drj11 commented 10 years ago

could look at the hostname to determine payment plan (I don't particularly like that, but it's just come up again today in the context of update hooks for spreadsheet-download).

scraperdragon commented 10 years ago

I dislike that somewhat as it's not a true mapping (some people have old boxes).

drj11 commented 10 years ago

yes, some people have old boxes, but that's basically a bug.

Hmm, but twitter tools are the kind of tool where you can't easily destroy them and start a new one, so it would be better to have an API to find out what payment plan the user is on.

On the other other hand, it may not be an issue if we force everyone to pay after 30 days.

frabcus commented 10 years ago

The limit was only put in to stop excessive load in the first place. But it does seem like something people are willing to specifically pay for.

frabcus commented 10 years ago

Also note this might need an FAQ, and see https://github.com/scraperwiki/twitter-follows-tool/issues/66

frabcus commented 10 years ago

In the end I called scraperwiki.user.profile and got the accoutnLevel.

https://github.com/scraperwiki/twitter-follows-tool/pull/81