/twitter-followers-tracker

Tracking my twitter followers/followings

Primary LanguagePython

twitter-followers-tracker

Tracking my twitter followings, followers, and whether they surreptitiously change their handles or identities.

Repository inspired by @simonw's disaster-scrapers.

Setup Notes

  1. Obtain a Twitter Developer account.

  2. Create a new Twitter application. The application does not need any additional settings, and requires Read-Only permissions of its users.

  3. Generate and keep to hand Consumer API Keys (to authenticate the app), and an Access token & Access token secret (to authenticate against your own user account). All of these can be regenerated in the App's settings pages.

  4. Add the following secrets from your Twitter app to the GitHub repository:

    Name Value (from Twitter app)
    TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY Consumer API Key
    TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET Consumer API Secret Key
    TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN Access Token
    TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET Access Token Secret

  5. The script will be run automatically every hour, or on push to the code branch.