🐦 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.