Unfollowing people not following me ... script not working

So, I have been at this for days and it seems that there is no way to unfollow people who are not following me…

twitter_handle = "MyTwitterName" 

friends_ids = api.friends_ids(api.me().id)

for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers, id=twitter_handler).items():
    if follower.id not in friends_ids:
        api.destroy_friendship(follower)

I have tried many variations of the above script bit it does not work.

[Peerdix]

I saw you are using tweepy as a python lib. i spontanly wrote this using python 2.7 You don’t have to seperate the dict. key from the main file, just a matter style. I did a sleep method from lib “time” to prevent twitter from spotting you as a bot.

If you have any questions, just ask.

#! /usr/bin/python
import tweepy
import random
from keys import keys
import time

SCREEN_NAME = keys['screen_name']
CONSUMER_KEY = keys['consumer_key']
CONSUMER_SECRET = keys['consumer_secret']
ACCESS_TOKEN = keys['access_token']
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = keys['access_token_secret']

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

followers = api.followers_ids(SCREEN_NAME)
friends = api.friends_ids(SCREEN_NAME)

for f in friends:
    if f not in followers:
        print f
        print "Unfollow {0}".format(api.get_user(f).screen_name)
        api.destroy_friendship(f)
        nsecs=random.randint(5,25)
        time.sleep(nsecs)
    else:
        continue


##keys.py

keys = dict(
    screen_name = 'Twitter handle',
    consumer_key =          '',
    consumer_secret =       '',
    access_token =          '',
    access_token_secret =   '',
)

[Harmon758]

API.friends_ids, now renamed to API.get_friend_ids, returns the IDs of users being followed by the specified user, whereas API.followers, now renamed to API.get_followers returns the specified user’s followers.

Also, the Twitter API endpoint that API.friends_ids, now renamed to API.get_friend_ids, uses, GET friends/ids, only returns 5000 user IDs at a time.

You’re iterating through all the followers of the specified user and checking to see if they’re one of your 5000 most recent followed users and if not, attempting to unfollow them.

It’s unclear what you’re attempting to try to do. If the specified user is the one you’re authenticated as, then there will be no users not following you when iterating through all your followers. If you’re attempting to go through the users you’re following and unfollow those not following you, as your title would suggest, then you’re iterating over the wrong set of users. Instead, you probably want to iterate over all the users you’re following and use API.lookup_friendships or API.get_friendship to determine whether or not they’re following you. That or you can retrieve all your followers beforehand to check if each user is in that group, i.e. following you.

@Peerdix @yogeshdmca @PvrpleBlvck CC @ChadLei That will only handle the most recent 5000 followers and following.

@PvrpleBlvck For code block usage, see https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks.