How to search by account?

[jcy204]

Is there a way to search CT for a list of Facebook account IDs, and return information about each one such as subscribers, etc? This is to fill the NaN values for some pages after downloading using Local Relevance. I can do it one post at a time but this isn't the most rate-limit efficient.

Thanks,

James

[jcy204]

Bit of a hack, albeit an inefficient one:

query = f'https://api.crowdtangle.com/posts/'
params = {
    'token': CT_Api_Token,
    'accounts': [],
    'startDate':'2019-03-01',
    'endDate':'2019-09-01',
    'count':'100',
    'sortBy':'date'
}



TEMP_IDS = PAGE_IDS.copy()
Page_Subscribers = {}

while len(Page_Subscribers)<len(PAGE_IDS):
    
    search_ids = TEMP_IDS[:100]
    params['accounts'] = search_ids
    print('Remaining:', len(TEMP_IDS))
    display.clear_output(wait=True)

    results = requests.get(query,params).json()
    
    while results['status'] != 200:
        print('Sleeping')
        time.sleep(10)
        results = requests.get(query,params).json()
        
    for page in results['result']['posts']:
        if page['account']['platformId'] not in Page_Subscribers:
            Page_Subscribers[page['account']['platformId']] = page['account']['subscriberCount']


            TEMP_IDS.remove(page['account']['platformId'])

[mattynoce]

Hi James. Do you have an example? I'm not sure why you're getting NaN values.

There's not a simple way to get an account by ID, but the idea is that you should get it from the original call and not have to do this. Please let us know what you're seeing and we'll see if we can better help.