Fetches followers from Twitter

get_followers.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import json
import time
from datetime import datetime
from secret import TWITTER_API_KEY, TWITTER_API_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET
import tweepy

USERNAME = 'YOUR_USERNAME_HERE'

def limit_handled(cursor):
    while True:
        try:
            yield cursor.next()
        except tweepy.RateLimitError:
            print datetime.now(), 'Sleeping'
            time.sleep(15 * 60)

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(TWITTER_API_KEY, TWITTER_API_SECRET)
auth.secure = True
auth.set_access_token(TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

cur = limit_handled(tweepy.Cursor(api.followers, id=USERNAME, count=200, skip_status=True).pages())
for i, page in enumerate(cur):
    print datetime.now(), 'getting', i
    with open('followers_{:05}.txt'.format(i), 'w') as f:
        json.dump([u._json for u in page], f)