Friends list of a friend using Twitter4J

Question

How can I obtain the friends list of a friend or follower using Twitter4J?

Using getFriendsId(), I\'m only able to retrieve the friend\'s/follower\'s list of that cu

Answer 1

You can use

twitter.getFollowersIDs("username", cursor);

http://twitter4j.org/javadoc/twitter4j/api/FriendsFollowersResources.html#getFollowersIDs-java.lang.String-long- which returns only 5000 user not all users. Also it is limited 15 times in 15 minutes.(https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friends/ids)

Also, you can use,

twitter.getFollowersList("username", cursor);

http://twitter4j.org/javadoc/twitter4j/api/FriendsFollowersResources.html#getFollowersList-java.lang.String-long- which is also limited with 20 user. Also it is limited 15 times in 15 minutes for user auth, 30 times in 15 minutes for app auth (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friends/list)

For unlimited access, you can look at https://gnip.com/ or whitelisted user access of twitter.