Get the number of followers of a given twitter accountΒΆ
Get the number of followers of a given twitter account.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
handle = input('Input your account name on Twitter: ')
temp = requests.get('https://twitter.com/' + handle)
bs = BeautifulSoup(temp.text,'lxml')
try:
follow_box = bs.find('li',{'class':'ProfileNav-item ProfileNav-item--followers'})
followers = follow_box.find('a').find('span',{'class':'ProfileNav-value'})
print("Number of followers: {} ".format(followers.get('data-count')))
except:
print('Account name not found...')
Output:
Input your account name on Twitter: XXXXXXXXXX
Number of followers: 61