I don't know my JavaScript. So I am using someone else's:
var CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxxx'; // Register your app with Twitter.
var CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxxx'; // Register your app with Twitter.
function getTwitterUserFollowers(id) {
// Encode consumer key and secret
var tokenUrl = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token";
var tokenCredential = Utilities.base64EncodeWebSafe(
CONSUMER_KEY + ":" + CONSUMER_SECRET);
// Obtain a bearer token with HTTP POST request
var tokenOptions = {
headers: {
Authorization: "Basic " + tokenCredential,
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8"
},
method: "post",
payload: "grant_type=client_credentials"
};
var responseToken = UrlFetchApp.fetch(tokenUrl, tokenOptions);
var parsedToken = JSON.parse(responseToken);
var token = parsedToken.access_token;
// Authenticate Twitter API requests with the bearer token
var apiUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name='+id;
var apiOptions = {
headers: {
Authorization: 'Bearer ' + token
},
"method": "get"
};
var responseApi = UrlFetchApp.fetch(apiUrl, apiOptions);
var result = "";
if (responseApi.getResponseCode() == 200) {
// Parse the JSON encoded Twitter API response
var tweets = JSON.parse(responseApi.getContentText());
return tweets.followers_count
}
Logger.log(result);
}
source: http://sarahmarshall.io/post/70812214349/how-to-add-twitter-follower-counts-to-a-google
Sarah Marshall provides a pretty awesome how-to on using a Google Sheets script with the Twitter API to get follower counts for a list of Twitter user names. But it times out after about 100 user names:
Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch. (line 21, file "Code")
I'm wondering how I can get around the rate limit, or account for it, and return follower counts for more than 100 user names. Any ideas?