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1from collections import Counter
2from json import dumps
3from time import sleep
4from twitter import Api # pip install python-twitter
5
6# Twitter access settings
7OAUTH_TOKEN = "YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN"
8OAUTH_SECRET = "YOUR_OAUTH_SECRET"
9CONSUMER_KEY = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
10CONSUMER_SECRET = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
11
12    
13api = Api(consumer_key=CONSUMER_KEY,
14          consumer_secret=CONSUMER_SECRET,
15          access_token_key=OAUTH_TOKEN,
16          access_token_secret=OAUTH_SECRET,
17          sleep_on_rate_limit=True)
18
19users_followed_by_follows = {}
20
21
22def get_following():
23    """
24    Retrieves the people you are following on Twitter.
25
26    Returns a list of twitter.User objects.
27    """
28    follows = api.GetFriends()
29    print("you are following {} people".format(len(following)))
30
31    return following
32
33
34def get_followed_by_people_followed(follows):
35    """
36    Returns a dictionary of follows. Top followed by friends is the suggestions.
37    This can be hampered by Twitter reaching capacity, therefore, there is a kludgy
38    time-sleep in there whenever an error is encountered.
39    """
40    for user in follows:
41        success = False
42        while not success:
43            try:
44                followed = api.GetFriends(user_id=user.id, screen_name=user.screen_name)
45                success = True
46            except:
47                sleep(10)
48        print("User {} is following {} people".format(user.screen_name, len(followed)))
49        for follow in followed:
50            if not follow in follows:
51                if not users_followed_by_follows.get(follow.screen_name):
52                    users_followed_by_follows[follow.screen_name] = 1
53                else:
54                    users_followed_by_follows[follow.screen_name] += 1
55    with open('users_followed_by_follows.json', 'w') as file:
56        file.write(dumps(users_followed_by_follows))
57    print("The people you follow are following {} unique people".format(len(users_followed_by_follows)))
58
59
60def print_top_suggestions():
61    """
62    Prints the users_followed_by_follows dictionary in descending order of value.
63    """
64    d = Counter(users_followed_by_follows)
65    for k, v in d.most_common():
66        print("{} ({})".format(k, v))
67
68
69following = get_following()
70get_followed_by_people_followed(following)
71print_top_suggestions()