Twitter-stats
This is a simple program to get information about any twitter account in your command line.
Features so far
- Obtain the names of the followers of a given twitter account name.
- Works with Twitter API v1.1 (so far August 2014)
Usage
To use this program you MUST have your twitter credentials and put them in a file.
Instructions are here also: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/tokens-devtwittercom
1- Login to twitter.com
2- Go to https://dev.twitter.com/
3- Go to my applications
4- Create a new app
5- Go to API keys menu
6- What is called "API key" should be put in a file as oauth.consumerKey
7- What is called "API key secret" should be put in a file as oauth.consumerKeySecret
8- Push th button "Create access tokens".
9- The acccess token in the web page goes into oauth.accessToken
10- The acccess token secret in the web page goes into oauth.accessTokenSecret
11- Be SURE of putting each token in the correct place.
You have an empty file called credentials.txt as an example to fill. Once you put the 4 values, you can run the program like this:
To get the followers of the user "test1234"
./twitter-stats.py -n test1234 -f -a credentials.txt
You can store the output in an external file every day and then compare them with diff.