def getFollowers()

in src/plugins/scanners/twitter.py [0:0]

• 34 lines of code
• 2 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def getFollowers(KibbleBit, source, t):
    """ Get followers of a handle, store them for mapping and trend purposes"""
    # Get our twitter handle
    handle = source['sourceURL']
    
    # Get number of followers
    tuser = t.GetUser(screen_name=handle)
    no_followers = tuser.followers_count
    d = time.strftime("%Y/%m/%d 0:00:00", time.gmtime())  # Today at midnight
    dhash = hashlib.sha224((("twitter:%s:%s:%s") % (source['organisation'], source['sourceURL'], d)).encode('ascii', errors='replace')).hexdigest()
    jst = {
        'organisation': source['organisation'],
        'sourceURL': source['sourceURL'],
        'sourceID': source['sourceID'],
        'id': dhash,
        'followers': no_followers,
        'date': d
    }
    KibbleBit.pprint("%s has %u followers currently." % (handle, no_followers))
    KibbleBit.index('twitter_followers', dhash, jst)
    
    # Collect list of current followers
    followers = t.GetFollowers(screen_name=handle)
    
    # For each follower, if they're not mapped yet, add them
    # This has a limitation of 100 new added per run, but meh...
    KibbleBit.pprint("Looking up followers of %s" % handle)
    for follower in followers:
        # id, name, screen_name are useful here
        KibbleBit.pprint ("Found %s as follower" % follower.screen_name)
        
        # Store twitter follower profile if not already logged
        dhash = hashlib.sha224((("twitter:%s:%s:%s") % (source['organisation'], handle, follower.id)).encode('ascii', errors='replace')).hexdigest()
        if not KibbleBit.exists('twitter_follow',dhash):
            jst = {
                'organisation': source['organisation'],
                'sourceURL': source['sourceURL'],
                'sourceID': source['sourceID'],
                'twitterid': follower.id,
                'name': follower.name,
                'screenname': follower.screen_name,
                'id': dhash,
                'date': time.strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime())  # First time we spotted them following.
                
            }
            KibbleBit.pprint("%s is new, recording date and details." % follower.screen_name)
            KibbleBit.index('twitter_follow', dhash, jst)