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Create the scatterplots used in NYTimes' Follower Factory article.

License: MIT License

HTML 67.14% Python 32.86%

followerfactory's Introduction

FollowerFactory

Create the scatterplots used in NYTimes' Follower Factory.

Getting Started

Install dependencies.

pip install TwitterAPI

Edit ff.py for your account. Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ to get your API keys. Don't forget to fill in your screen name (or someone else's).

CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ''

SCREEN_NAME = 'eiaine'

Run!

python ff.py

This can take a long time due to Twitter's rate-limiting, so expect to wait about an hour for every 12,000 followers. When the script is complete, view the results by opening index.html in your web browser. Your plot will look something like this:

Troubleshooting

If the chart fails to load, you may be getting an error along the lines of Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https. To fix this, either open index.html in firefox, or start chrome with --allow-file-access-from-files, or try some of the other suggestions listed here.

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followerfactory's Issues

TwitterAPI timeout

I keep getting a “Read timed out,” always around the same spot (count 6400).

INFO:root:count: 6400
INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.twitter.com
WARNING:root:<class 'requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout'> HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.twitter.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ff.py", line 43, in <module>
    main()
  File "ff.py", line 28, in main
    fans_raw = bot.request('followers/list', {'screen_name': SCREEN_NAME, 'count': 200, 'cursor':cursor, 'skip_status':True, 'include_user_entities': False})
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/TwitterAPI/TwitterAPI.py", line 134, in request
    raise TwitterConnectionError(e)
TwitterAPI.TwitterError.TwitterConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.twitter.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=5)

formatting of graph inaccurate

Thanks for this @elaineo but when I view the index.html, I only see the points in a straight line. I'm trying to learn but I hoped you could help me locate the bug. It is in index.html (data.csv is fine):

Increase speed

it's possible increase speed with more api's? pull api's?

Gracias.

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