dude just use oauth, 5000 per call ids/followers is the method. look it up.
On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:04 AM, m36tb6ll wrote: > > Hi. If it would help. I just created a web app using > http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers.json and made a loop using > a variable delay time using > http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.json > so as to avoid going over the limits. It allowed me to fetch > approximately 15000 (100 per call) in 1 hour using unauthenticated > requests. > > ;) > > > On Nov 24, 2:29 am, Edward Hotchkiss <edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com> > wrote: >> 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.comhttp://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 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
