[Enhancement] Following/followers lists

[stemy2]

Hello,

For now, we can't see the list of persons following/being followed by someone. We can only see the number, not the persons. Is the functionality implementable ?

[zedeus]

I believe it is implementable yes, I played around with the required endpoints many moons ago

[shtefcs]

I believe it is implementable yes, I played around with the required endpoints many moons ago

Hi Zed, is there a way to share more info on this? I am interested if we are able to get a full list or at least some number of followers of a certain account?

Would be grateful if you can point me somewhere, even its includes a solution outside of Nitter. And yeah, trying to do this without a Twitter Developer account.

[zedeus]

@shtefcs Following: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friends/list.json?screen_name=<username> Followers: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json?screen_name=<username>

[shtefcs]

wow that was fast and very interest. I just tried to query, but getting {"errors":[{"code":215,"message":"Bad Authentication data."}]}

I guess this not requiring any authentication?

[zedeus]

You need to authenticate using a guest token. curl 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/guest/activate.json' -H "authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPYXBAAAAAAACLXUNDekMxqa8h%2F40K4moUkGsoc%3DTYfbDKbT3jJPCEVnMYqilB28NHfOPqkca3qaAxGfsyKCs0wRbw" -X POST

Then take the token you get, and use the endpoints like this: curl 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json?screen_name=elonmusk' -H 'authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPYXBAAAAAAACLXUNDekMxqa8h%2F40K4moUkGsoc%3DTYfbDKbT3jJPCEVnMYqilB28NHfOPqkca3qaAxGfsyKCs0wRbw' -H 'x-guest-token: <token>'

[shtefcs]

You need to authenticate using a guest token. curl 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/guest/activate.json' -H "authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPYXBAAAAAAACLXUNDekMxqa8h%2F40K4moUkGsoc%3DTYfbDKbT3jJPCEVnMYqilB28NHfOPqkca3qaAxGfsyKCs0wRbw" -X POST

Then take the token you get, and use the endpoints like this: curl 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json?screen_name=elonmusk' -H 'authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPYXBAAAAAAACLXUNDekMxqa8h%2F40K4moUkGsoc%3DTYfbDKbT3jJPCEVnMYqilB28NHfOPqkca3qaAxGfsyKCs0wRbw' -H 'x-guest-token: <token>'

Thank you a lot! Will share with my team mates this and see how it goes.

Is there any limit on followers response, how many followers u can get?

[zedeus]

Not that I know of, just use the cursor (in next_cursor_str, add as query parameter using min_position or max_position not sure which one) to get the next page of responses

[shtefcs]

okay, thanks mate alot. Nitter is really great project, we wanted to use it in our project, but looked like overkill, specially now that you shared those API accesses.

[cypherbits]

I tried the APIs but this seems to only bw working on the "old" v1.1 API with the guest token. This means that we can implement this feature but if Twitter removes the v1.1 we can't do anything since the v2 or graphql api seems it does not work.