python check_twitter_friends_last_tweet_date.py

Posted 2021-05-09

"""
Script to identify accounts followed older than 4 months.

Source blogpost: http://www.rainbowbreeze.it/identify-your-twitter-followings-older-that-4-months
"""

import tweetpony
from datetime import timedelta, datetime
import urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl
import time
import json
import os


def authenticate():
    try:
        api = tweetpony.API(tweetpony.CONSUMER_KEY, tweetpony.CONSUMER_SECRET)
        url = api.get_auth_url()
        print("Visit this URL to obtain your verification code: %s" % url)
        verifier = raw_input("Input your code: ")
        api.authenticate(verifier)
    except tweetpony.APIError as err:
        print("Oh no! You could not be authenticated. Twitter returned error #%i and said: %s"
              % (err.code, err.description))
    else:
        auth_data = {'access_token': api.access_token, 'access_token_secret': api.access_token_secret}
        with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), ".auth_data.json"), 'w') as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(auth_data))
        print("Hello, @%s! You have been authenticated. You can now run the other example scripts without having to "
              "authenticate every time." % api.user.screen_name)


def get_api():
    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), ".auth_data.json")):
        authenticate()
    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), ".auth_data.json"), 'r') as f:
        auth_data = json.loads(f.read())
    try:
        api = tweetpony.API(tweetpony.CONSUMER_KEY, tweetpony.CONSUMER_SECRET, auth_data['access_token'],
                            auth_data['access_token_secret'])
    except tweetpony.APIError as err:
        print("Oh no! You could not be authenticated. Twitter returned error #%i and said: %s" % (err.code, err.description))
    else:
        return api
    return False


def find_inactive_friends(api, screen_name):
    """
    Prints all the followers of a given user which twitted, last time, more than 4 months ago

    :return a list of these accounts
    """
    print("Searching for followers that have twitted last time more than 4 months ago for user " + screen_name)

    inactive_friends = []
    four_months_ago = datetime.now() - timedelta(weeks=16)

    try:
        # Find all the followers of the given user
        all_friends_ids = api.friends_ids(screen_name=screen_name)
        total_friends = len(all_friends_ids)
        print('Total friends %d' % total_friends)
        counter = 0
        for friend_id in all_friends_ids:
            counter += 1
            # Get follower information
            friend = api.get_user(user_id=friend_id)

            log_progress = '   (%d/%d) ' % (counter, total_friends)
            log_begin = log_progress + friend.name + ' (' + friend.screen_name + ') '
            # Protected tweets, no status property at all
            if not hasattr(friend, 'status'):
                print(log_begin + 'has private tweets')
            # No status, never twitted -> old or fake user
            if friend.status is None:
                inactive_friends.append(friend_id)
                print(log_begin + 'never twitted')
            # Finally a proper user :)
            else:
                status_date = friend.status.created_at
                if status_date < four_months_ago:
                    inactive_friends.append(friend_id)
                    print(log_begin + 'may be old, tweeted last time on ' + unicode(status_date) + ' - Check https://twitter.com/' + friend.screen_name)
                else:
                    if 0 == counter % 5:
                        print(log_progress + 'and counting...')
                    #print('   ' + log_begin + 'seems OK, last tweet was on ' + unicode(status_date))

            # Try to avoid Twitter error #88: Rate limit exceeded
            #  180 request every 15 minutes, one each 5 seconds
            time.sleep(5)

    except tweetpony.APIError as err:
        print("Oh no! Twitter returned error #%i and said: %s" % (err.code, err.description))
    except Exception as err:
        print(' Analysing follower id %s returned error: %s' % (unicode(friend_id), err))

    return inactive_friends


def main():
    # Removes InsecurePlatformWarning
    urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3()
    # Custom Twitter API keys, change with yours!
    tweetpony.CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxxxxxx'
    tweetpony.CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxxxxx'

    api = get_api()
    if not api:
        return

    username = raw_input("Username to lookup (leave blank for your own): ").strip()
    if username == "":
        username = api.user.screen_name

    inactive_friends = find_inactive_friends(api, username)
    print('Find %d' % len(inactive_friends))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()