Getting a specific page number

[adamhp]

Hey all, I'm trying to split my requests for specific pages of the get_followers. I thought I could maybe use a Cursor manually to get specific pages, but I really haven't been able to figure out.

Let's say someone has 1000 followers. I'm splitting the jobs into 5 consecutive calls of:

api.get_followers(screen_name=screen_name, count=200)

So, I sort of expected the following to work:

api.get_followers(screen_name=screen_name, cursor=-1, count=200)
api.get_followers(screen_name=screen_name, cursor=0, count=200)
api.get_followers(screen_name=screen_name, cursor=1, count=200)
api.get_followers(screen_name=screen_name, cursor=2, count=200)
api.get_followers(screen_name=screen_name, cursor=3, count=200)

This way, if any individual job fails, I can pick up where I left off, and I can handle the rate limiting myself with job scheduling.

How can I get a specific page of 200 results from an API call?

[Harmon758]

While the first cursor will be -1, subsequent cursors returned as next_cursor will be ID values, not increments of 1.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-followers-list
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/pagination

The CursorIterator returned by Cursor.pages when used with this method has a next_cursor attribute you can use and pass as cursor.
The iterator can also be retrieved using the iterator attribute of Cursor or the page_iterator attribute of the ItemIterator returned by Cursor.items.

[adamhp]

Thanks for the reply. I'll see if I can get this to work.

[adamhp]

@Harmon758 I'm still not sure this really solves the problem.

If I am making a request for 200 pages, and my process errors out on the 179th iteration, how do I pick up at 180, if I have called .pages(), for example.

[Harmon758]

You can pass the next_cursor attribute it stops at as the cursor parameter for API.get_followers.