Python Web Scraping: Get the number of post on Twitter liked by a given account

Python Web Scraping: Exercise-18 with Solution

Write a Python program to get the number of post on Twitter liked by a given account.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

handle = input('Input your account name on Twitter: ') 
temp = requests.get('https://twitter.com/'+handle)
bs = BeautifulSoup(temp.text,'lxml')

try:
    favorite_box = bs.find('li',{'class':'ProfileNav-item ProfileNav-item--favorites'})
    favorite = favorite_box.find('a').find('span',{'class':'ProfileNav-value'})
    print("Number of post {}  liked are {}: ".format(handle,favorite.get('data-count')))

except:
    print('Account name not found...')
  
 

Sample Output:

Input your account name on Twitter:  @prasanta
Number of post @prasanta  liked are 119: 

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