Twitter API Get User ID from Status ID

Question

I am creating a Twitter bot that will follow the creator of a given status.
I have the status ID (tweet ID), but I need to grab the user ID of the user who posted the tweet in order to follow them. How can I get this? I am using the Twyton package.

Answer 1

You should use the request statuses/show/:id as specified in the Twitter REST API

In Twython, you should call show_status like this:

from twython import Twython

# define application keys here
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""

twitter = Twython(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)
status = twitter.show_status(id='tweet_id')
print status['user']['id_str']