Issue Fetching Followers

[Drew1]

Hello, I have altered/updated a script I found on Github to fetch a user’s followers on twitch. For some reason the script is fetching way more than the actual followers of the user. Here is the code I am using. Replace username with actual twitch profile name.

import json
import sys
import csv
import urllib.request


counter = 0
f = open('followers.csv','w',encoding='utf-8',newline="\n")
mywriter = csv.writer(f,dialect='excel',quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
mywriter.writerow(['Followed At (UTC)','Notifications?','User ID','User Name','User Created At (UTC)','User Updated At (UTC)','Display Name','Logo URL','Bio','User Type'])
url = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/username/follows?direction=ASC&limit=100"
req = urllib.request.Request(url)
req.add_header("Client-ID","72v2al6ufhz1x2a32ynl68i6j8vku3")
response = str(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode('utf-8'))
myjson = json.loads(response)

while (len(myjson['follows']) > 0):
    for follower in myjson['follows']:
        created_at  = follower['created_at']
        notified    = follower['notifications']
        user_id     = follower['user']['_id']
        user_name   = follower['user']['name']
        user_created = follower['user']['created_at']
        user_updated = follower['user']['updated_at']
        user_display = follower['user']['display_name']
        if (follower['user']['logo'] != None):
            logo_url    = follower['user']['logo']
        else:
            logo_url = ""
        if (follower['user']['bio'] != None):
            user_bio    = follower['user']['bio']
        else:
            user_bio = ""
        user_type   = follower['user']['type'].encode("utf-8")
        mywriter.writerow([str(created_at),str(notified),user_id,str(user_name),str(user_created),str(user_updated),str(user_display),str(logo_url),str(user_bio),str(user_type)])
    url = myjson['_links']['next']
    response = str(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode('utf-8'))
    myjson = json.loads(response)
    counter += 100
    print(counter)

f.close

[BarryCarlyon]

You are using a deprecated version of the API.

Please upgrade to either v5

Reference

Or helix

Reference

[Drew1]

Thanks you for your help so far. Ive updated my code to following:

import json
import sys
import csv
import urllib.request


counter = 0
f = open('followers.csv','w',encoding='utf-8',newline="\n")
mywriter = csv.writer(f,dialect='excel',quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
mywriter.writerow(['User Name','Display Name',])
url = "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?to_id=6663444"
       
req = urllib.request.Request(url)
req.add_header("Client-ID","72v2al6ufhz1x2a32ynl68i6j8vku3")
response = str(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode('utf-8'))
myjson = json.loads(response)

Everything before the while loop works but how would I go about listing all of the followers and not just the default 100?

[BarryCarlyon]

Please wrap your code in three backticks so it is formatted for easier reading.

Please read the documentation, regarding pagination

Twitch API

Or even the note in the docs I linked to earlier

Reference

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
pagination	string	A cursor value, to be used in a subsequent request to specify the starting point of the next set of results.

Also note:

Optional Query String Paramaters

Name	Type	Description
after	string	Cursor for forward pagination: tells the server where to start fetching the next set of results, in a multi-page response. The cursor value specified here is from the pagination response field of a prior query.
first	integer	Maximum number of objects to return. Maximum: 100. Default: 20.

The default is 20 and you didn’t include a first in your request

[Drew1]

Thanks for your help. It is now working.