Twitter Stalker

Just a simple script I made that fetches a user's Twitter followers list. Combined with a crontab running on a daily basis so I can find out who unfollows me :)

Actually, you can change the TWITTER_USER and just stalk whoever you want ;)

Setup

Need to define 2 environment variables

Key	Description
TWITTER_USER	username or handle. Begins with the “@” symbol, is unique per account, and appears in the profile URL.
TWITTER_TOKEN	Used for authorization. It can be fetched by launching Twitter on your browser after being logged-in and copying the authorization header of any request.

How To Run

Local

Just run the script!

./main.py
date='2023/02/15', followers=77, added_names=['Mendy Landa (LandaMendy)', 'Tal Borenstein (talboren)'], removed_names=[]

Scheduled job

Run crontab -e to add a new cronjob

• Define the environment variables
• Define interval, check crontab.guru
• Store logs to a log file

Here's an example running the script on a daily basis:

TWITTER_USER=<user_to_stalk>
TWITTER_TOKEN=<auth_token>
...
0 0 * * * <path/to/repo>/twitter-stalker/main.py >> <path/to/repo>/twitter-stalker/log.txt 2>&1

Show Me Some Trends!

The repo has a Grafana deployment based on Docker Compose.

1. Deploy

   make grafana
   

2. Open the browser at http://localhost:3000/d/twitter-trends