Get User Following

Get the list of users that a specific user is following. Returns comprehensive user profile data for each followed account with pagination support. Useful for understanding a user’s interests and network.

GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings

Get user following

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>'

import requests

url = "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings"

headers = {"x-api-key": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/followings")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "44196397",
      "username": "elonmusk",
      "name": "Elon Musk",
      "created_at": "Tue Jun 02 20:12:29 +0000 2009",
      "description": "Mars & Cars, Chips & Dips",
      "location": "Mars",
      "url": "<string>",
      "profile_image_url": "<string>",
      "profile_banner_url": "<string>",
      "followers_count": 0,
      "following_count": 0,
      "tweet_count": 0,
      "listed_count": 0,
      "favourites_count": 123,
      "media_count": 123,
      "verified": false,
      "verified_type": "<string>",
      "is_blue_verified": true,
      "created_at_datetime": "<string>",
      "protected": true,
      "possibly_sensitive": true,
      "followed_by": true,
      "following": true,
      "can_dm": true,
      "professional_type": "<string>",
      "pinned_tweet_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": "Invalid or missing API key"
}

{
  "error": "Insufficient credits"
}

{
  "error": "Rate limit exceeded. Please retry after a short delay."
}

Authorizations

x-api-key · string · header · required

Your ScrapeBadger API key. You can find this in your dashboard at https://scrapebadger.com/dashboard/api-keys.

Path Parameters

username · string · required

The username (screen name) of the user.

Example:

"elonmusk"

Query Parameters

cursor · string

Pagination cursor for fetching the next page of results.

Response

200

application/json

Successfully retrieved following list.

Paginated list of users.

data · object[] | null

Array of user objects.

Show child attributes

next_cursor · string | null

Cursor for fetching the next page. Null if no more results.