Question

I am using Twitter gem (1.7.1) in ruby. I want to get my member of my list on Twitter but I just get last twenty members. How can I get more than twenty members?

listmembers = client.list_members(username, listname)
listmembers.users.each do |lmname| 
              p lmname.screen_name
            end

Answer 1

First, pass an argument “cursor=-1”. You then get the first 20. The Twitter API will return a field called “next_cursor” – pass this to the cursor and you get the next 20.

Example (pseudocode):

cursor = -1
do {
    # get data, using the cursor
    data = {}

    cursor = data.next_cursor
} while (len(data) > 0) # Loop while we're still getting data back

More info on https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/lists/members