just make sure to check for next_cursor_str to grab the next page if the user has more than 5000. note that next_cursor_str does not ever return null On Nov 23, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Matt Harris wrote:
> You can get the list of all followers using the API request: > https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1 > > That request will return up to 5000 follower IDs in one request. You can then > look up details of those users using the /1/users/lookup method. > > More information on these methods is available here: > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids > and > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup > > Best > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitter > http://twitter.com/themattharris > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM, jaojao <wuwei.yuan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have written a php to fetch followers of a given username of twitter > by using twitter API. > But the result is limited by the number of followers. > For example, there are only 100 followers of BBCWorld listed in > result, instead of 367,480. > > What is the solution to overcome this limitation? > > my code: > <?php > $username="BBCWorld"; //input user name of twitter > $follower_url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers/";. > $username.".xml"; > > $twFriends = curl_init(); > curl_setopt($twFriends, CURLOPT_URL, $follower_url); > curl_setopt($twFriends, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); > $twiFriends = curl_exec($twFriends); > $response = new SimpleXMLElement($twiFriends); > > foreach($response->user as $friends){ > $thumb = $friends->profile_image_url; > $url = $friends->screen_name; > $name = $friends->name; > ?> > <a title="<?php echo $name;?>" href="http://www.twitter.com/<?php echo > $url;?>"><img class="photo-img" src="<?php echo $thumb?>" border="0" > alt="" width="40" /></a> > <?php > } > ?> > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk Regards, -------------------- Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com http://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/ -------------------- -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
