Twitter-api – Twitter API v2 Followers access via Basic Account

Can’t retrieve user followers via accessing Twitter API. I couldn’t really figure out why it’s not working before I found out they removed followers from Basic access.

1. Just want to confirm the code is right. Maybe I still can retrieve the info, but the code is incorrect.
2. If it is indeed due to the endpoints removed. Any ideas how I can work around this barrier? Via other endpoints? I don’t know; any suggestion, really.

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "flag"
    "fmt"
    "net/url"
    "time"

    "github.com/cvcio/twitter"
)

func main() {
    consumerKey := flag.String("consumer-key", "", "twitter API consumer key")
    consumerSecret := flag.String("consumer-secret", "", "twitter API consumer secret")

    id := flag.String("id", "", "user id")

    flag.Parse()

    start := time.Now()

    api, err := twitter.NewTwitter(*consumerKey, *consumerSecret)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    v := url.Values{}
    v.Add("max_results", "1000")
    followers, _ := api.GetUserFollowers(*id, v)

    for {
        r, ok := <-followers

        if !ok {
            break
        }

        b, err := json.Marshal(r.Data)
        if err != nil {
            panic(err)
        }

        var data []*twitter.User
        json.Unmarshal(b, &data)
        for _, v := range data {
            fmt.Printf("%s,%s,%sn", v.ID, v.UserName, v.Name)
        }

        fmt.Println()
        fmt.Printf("Result Count: %d Next Token: %sn", r.Meta.ResultCount, r.Meta.NextToken)
    }

    end := time.Now()

    fmt.Printf("Done in %s", end.Sub(start))
}