python - Twitter: Finding number of followers from a Twitter account URL -
is there way find number of followers of twitter user using user's twitter account url? example, using twitter account url www.twitter.com/abc
, find number of followers user corresponding account url has?
i have extracted followers count using beautifulsoup
in python, there non-scraping way accomplish this? know there api finds followers count using user id, couldn't find me find follower count using twitter account url.
you can extract screen name url, , use users/lookup, returns among other things follower_count
of given user.
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