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🐦 Twitter Following Scraper

This actor allows you to fetch the list of users that a specified Twitter account is following. It uses the latest Twitter API interface and supports automatic pagination to collect up to the number of users you specify.

Features

• Fetches the following list for any public Twitter user.
• Supports automatic pagination to retrieve large lists.
• Allows you to specify the maximum number of results (maxResults).
• Returns detailed user information for each following account.

Input

• screenname (string, required): The Twitter username whose following list you want to fetch.
• maxResults (integer, optional): Maximum number of following users to fetch.

Output

The output is an array of user objects, each containing:

• user_id
• screen_name
• description
• profile_image
• statuses_count
• followers_count
• friends_count
• media_count
• name

Example Input

{
"screenname":"elonmusk",
"maxResults":50
}

Example Output

[
{
"user_id":"95092020",
"screen_name":"jordanbpeterson",
"description":"Best-Selling Author | Clinical Psychologist | #1 Education Podcast | Co-founder of @petersonacademy | Order my new book \"We Who Wrestle With God\" here:",
"profile_image":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1407056014776614923/TKBC60e1_normal.jpg",
"statuses_count":51560,
"followers_count":6093941,
"friends_count":1660,
"media_count":7358,
"name":"Dr Jordan B Peterson",
"scrapedAt":"2025-05-30T00:53:49.532Z"
},
	...
]

Notes

• The actor will stop fetching once it reaches the specified maxResults or there are no more users to fetch.
• Make sure the target account is public and not protected.