// Returns a slice with twitter ids of the given user's friends
func fetchTwitterFriends(screenName string, api *anaconda.TwitterApi) ([]string, error) {
if api == nil {
// Let's just pretend he has no friends, because we can't actually ask
// Twitter about it
return []string{}, nil
}
v := url.Values{}
v.Set("count", "100")
v.Set("cursor", "-1")
v.Set("screen_name", screenName)
friendsIds, err := api.GetFriendsIds(v)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
friends, err := api.GetUsersLookupByIds(friendsIds.Ids, url.Values{})
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var friendsNames []string
for _, friend := range friends {
friendsNames = append(friendsNames, friend.ScreenName)
}
return friendsNames, nil
}
// Get friends' user IDs
func getFriendIDs(friendsCount string, api *anaconda.TwitterApi) map[int64]bool {
params := url.Values{}
params.Set("count", friendsCount)
// Get the list of IDs from the API
friendsIdsAll, err := api.GetFriendsIds(params)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Failed to get friends data: %s", err)
}
friendsIdsTemp := friendsIdsAll.Ids
// Create a map
friendsIds := make(map[int64]bool)
for _, friendId := range friendsIdsTemp {
friendsIds[friendId] = true
}
return (friendsIds)
}