Fix get user's followers example

examples/evaluation/evaluate_user_followers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Use text editor to edit the script and type in valid Instagram username/password
+
+from InstagramAPI import InstagramAPI
+from examples.evaluation.evaluation_log import EvaluationLog
+from examples.user_followers import getTotalFollowers
+
+
+def evaluate_method(function, parameters, function_name=None):
+    evaluation_log = EvaluationLog()
+    evaluation_log.start_log(function_name)
+    response = function(*parameters)
+    evaluation_log.end_log(function_name)
+
+    print('response size:', len(response))
+    print('number of unique users:', len(set([user['username'] for user in response])))
+    print()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    api = InstagramAPI("username", "password")
+    api.login()
+
+    # For a user with over 22k followers, use: user_id = '1461295173'
+    user_id = api.username_id
+
+    evaluate_method(api.getTotalFollowers, [user_id], 'api.getTotalFollowers')
+    evaluate_method(getTotalFollowers, [api, user_id], 'getTotalFollowers')

examples/evaluation/evaluation_log.py

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+from time import time, process_time, strftime, localtime
+from datetime import timedelta
+
+
+def time_to_str(elapsed=None):
+    if elapsed is None:
+        return strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime())
+    else:
+        return str(timedelta(seconds=elapsed))
+
+
+class EvaluationLog():
+
+    def start_log(self, s="Start Program"):
+        self.start = time()
+        self.cpu_start = process_time()
+        self.log(s)
+
+    def end_log(self, s="End Program"):
+        self.end = time()
+        self.cpu_end = process_time()
+        elapsed_time = self.end - self.start
+        cpu_time = self.cpu_end - self.cpu_start
+        self.log(s, time_to_str(elapsed_time), time_to_str(cpu_time))
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def log(s, elapsed_time=None, cpu_time=None):
+        line = "=" * 40
+        print(line)
+        print(time_to_str(), '-', s)
+
+        if elapsed_time:
+            print("Elapsed time:", elapsed_time)
+        if cpu_time:
+            print("CPU time:", cpu_time)
+
+        print(line)

examples/user_followers.py

@@ -5,10 +5,38 @@
 
 from InstagramAPI import InstagramAPI
 
-api = InstagramAPI("login", "password")
-api.login()  # login
-api.tagFeed("cat")  # get media list by tag #cat
-media_id = api.LastJson  # last response JSON
-api.like(media_id["ranked_items"][0]["pk"])  # like first media
-api.getUserFollowers(media_id["ranked_items"][0]["user"]["pk"])  # get first media owner followers
-print(api.LastJson)
+
+def getTotalFollowers(api, user_id):
+    """
+    Returns the list of followers of the user.
+    It should be equivalent of calling api.getTotalFollowers from InstagramAPI
+    """
+
+    followers = []
+    next_max_id = True
+    while next_max_id:
+        # first iteration hack
+        if next_max_id is True:
+            next_max_id = ''
+
+        _ = api.getUserFollowers(user_id, maxid=next_max_id)
+        followers.extend(api.LastJson.get('users', []))
+        next_max_id = api.LastJson.get('next_max_id', '')
+    return followers
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    api = InstagramAPI("username", "password")
+    api.login()
+
+    # user_id = '1461295173'
+    user_id = api.username_id
+
+    # List of all followers
+    followers = getTotalFollowers(api, user_id)
+    print('Number of followers:', len(followers))
+
+    # Alternatively, use the code below
+    # (check evaluation.evaluate_user_followers for further details).
+    followers = api.getTotalFollowers(user_id)
+    print('Number of followers:', len(followers))