twarc followers #618

miguelwon · 2022-03-29T17:02:37Z

miguelwon
Mar 29, 2022

Twitter API followers endpoint returns the list of followers sorted by the moment the user followed the account.

Does twarc followers command output respect that order?
Is it possible to get details about each user metadata when retrieving the followers?

Answered by igorbrigadir

Yes, twarc returns exactly what the API does, it only modifies the original responses to add some metadata in __twarc so if the API response is ordered somehow, the twarc response will be too.
By default, all available expansions and fields are requested, so the full user payload is returned. The original responses have all of this inside includes portion of the response, and if you want to merge everything and have 1 complete object per line, you can use twarc2 flatten command on the responses, and you'll get 1 user per line.

igorbrigadir · 2022-03-29T17:26:39Z

Yes, twarc returns exactly what the API does, it only modifies the original responses to add some metadata in __twarc so if the API response is ordered somehow, the twarc response will be too.
By default, all available expansions and fields are requested, so the full user payload is returned. The original responses have all of this inside includes portion of the response, and if you want to merge everything and have 1 complete object per line, you can use twarc2 flatten command on the responses, and you'll get 1 user per line.

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