Stop retweeting blocked acccounts.

[humblelad]

Is there a way to stop retweeting blocked accounts(which was done manually). In the sense, it should not retweet if the user id is in the block list. Any help appreciated. .: :)

[humblelad]

@MichaelCurrin Can you help with the query?

[MichaelCurrin]

@humblelad Is your blocked list stored in your application or in Twitter?

For the latter try

blocked_users = api.blocks()

Then you can get user.id or user.screen_name on the result.

You might want to get the blocked list at application start (to save regularly checking) and then reuse it for your retweeting.

http://docs.tweepy.org/en/latest/api.html#API.blocks

[humblelad]

@MichaelCurrin https://github.com/humblelad/HashTagger-Twitter-Bot/blob/master/hashtagger.py Here is the sample code. I want to stop retweeting accounts which I blocked manually via twitter to stop spams.

[Harmon758]

As explained, you can use API.blocks or API.blocks_ids and check against the IDs of the users you have blocked, using the user attribute of the Status/Tweet object and the id attribute of the User object.