Who are your followers

Sounds simple isn't it?

Thanks to @jesta we have now links available in the profile page. Let's find the same information out using Python, @xeroc's steem-piston and graphene followers API.

I implemented a small experiment:

import sys
from steemapi.steemnoderpc import SteemNodeRPC

class FollowMe(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.rpc = SteemNodeRPC("wss://node.steem.ws", "", "", apis=["follow"])

    def followers(self, account):
        return [ f['follower'] for f in self.rpc.get_followers(account, "", "blog", 100, api="follow") ]


if __name__ == '__main__':
  if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        sys.stderr.write("Usage: %s steem_account" % (sys.argv[0],))
        sys.exit(1)
  f = FollowMe()
  print("%s followers %s" % (sys.argv[1], f.followers(sys.argv[1])))

and run it against my STEEM account:

$ python3 followers.py cryptomental
cryptomental followers ['alexoz', 'ausbitbank', 'feedthemachine', 'kenny-crane', 'omarb', 'steemlinks']

Hmm... I just have 6 followers :( hopefully this will change in the future...

Who are you following

The following API let's you see people who you are following. Two more lines will be enough:

def following(self, account):
    return [ f['following'] for f in self.rpc.get_following(account, "", "blog", 100, api="follow") ]

Well you know who are you following, don't you? ;-)

$ python3 followers.py cryptomental
cryptomental followers ['alexoz', 'ausbitbank', 'feedthemachine', 'kenny-crane', 'omarb', 'steemlinks']
cryptomental follows ['jesta', 'xeroc']

Now something more difficult: meet people who are following your followers

for follower in f.followers(sys.argv[1]):
        print("%s is followed by %s" % (follower, f.followers(follower)))
        print(60*"-")

and there it goes...

alexoz is followed by ['ab94', 'acarya', 'adolphius', 'akaninyene-etuk', 'alexgr', 'alitas', 'allmonitors', 'andre-ager', 'anotherjoe', 'antyivan', 'anxietymaven', 'ashwim', 'augustinsong', 'barrydutton', 'bdavid', 'beanz', 'ben99', 'benjy33', 'beowulfoflegend', 'bhavnapatel68', 'bitcoinfly', 'bitland', 'bluestar', 'brindleswan', 'christiansenn', 'cian.dafe', 'clevecross', 'cogliostro', 'condra', 'cousteau', 'crowfromwithin', 'cryptoiskey', 'cryptojoy.com', 'dave-hughes', 'daveks', 'davidmlesley', 'daycrypter', 'derekareith', 'digitalhound', 'djbfrank', 'djm34', 'dumar022', 'e-steem', 'edtorrez', 'elissahawke', 'erotic', 'felixxx', 'foxkoit', 'freedomengineer', 'frol', 'funkywanderer', 'georgina', 'haley-liz', 'heretickitten', 'herzmeister', 'hien-tran', 'hilarski', 'iamrohitkgupta', 'imtiaz', 'inertia', 'inkha', 'iseektruth', 'ivanba12', 'jasmine-l', 'jaysanz', 'jbouchard12', 'jeffereyjaxen', 'jeison', 'jevgenz', 'jonno-katz', 'joseph', 'karchersmith', 'karenb54', 'kendewitt', 'kingsjack123', 'kirby1', 'kreativ', 'kristina011891', 'kus-knee', 'lantto', 'leksimus', 'lescraig', 'loum', 'lovejoy', 'luke490', 'madhatting', 'magicmonk', 'markrmorrisjr', 'matherly', 'matrioshka', 'mazi', 'michaelelliot', 'mickbynes', 'minergate123', 'miscreantpie', 'mister-t', 'moon32walker', 'moonjelly', 'mrlakmini', 'mrwang']
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feedthemachine is followed by ['bitmaxt', 'cian.dafe', 'digitalhound', 'edtorrez', 'freedomengineer', 'harveywoods', 'hoffmabc', 'inkha', 'ivanba12', 'michaeldodridge', 'repholder', 'rossenpavlov', 'steemlinks', 'steemzine']
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omarb is followed by ['achim86', 'alexgr', 'amdnoob', 'andrew0', 'ben99', 'blankslatetheory', 'bonapartist', 'cian.dafe', 'clevecross', 'dahaz159', 'damianquestiny', 'damirkatusic', 'deeallen', 'derekareith', 'digitalhound', 'dimitarj', 'disofdis', 'djmagrobel', 'edtorrez', 'el-huleb', 'frol', 'fyrstikken', 'infosounds', 'inkha', 'ivanba12', 'ivp', 'jbouchard12', 'kanabis420pm', 'kareemaudi', 'kevinwong', 'kristina011891', 'kyriacos', 'localconcierge', 'mohammedouazi', 'naturalista', 'omarbitcoin', 'ossama-benjohn', 'pabich', 'penguinpablo', 'powercouple', 'pupa', 'ridji', 'romaan-namoor', 'romanskv', 'royaltiffany', 'seymour', 'shawn-brewer', 'simo9445', 'sonyanka', 'steemlinks', 'steemzine', 'stino-san', 'teddybrown', 'toonns38', 'usnewspress', 'xenadu']
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steemlinks is followed by ['ab94', 'abdosenni', 'aboundlessworld', 'achim86', 'adamt', 'adsactly', 'ajaub1962', 'ajavajive', 'alekschm', 'alexft', 'alexgr', 'alexoz', 'alitas', 'all-of-us', 'almiller', 'alsprinting', 'always1success', 'amanarchymartin', 'andre-ager', 'andre62', 'andressilvera', 'anduweb', 'antyivan', 'anwar78', 'apollojae', 'applecrisp', 'argsolver', 'arnoldz61', 'arta.rajabi', 'augustinsong', 'avemend', 'baro', 'barrydutton', 'bbrewer', 'bdavid', 'beanz', 'ben99', 'benadapt', 'benjiberigan', 'bhavnapatel68', 'billjam56', 'bitcoin3d', 'bitcoinmoney', 'bitland', 'bitmaxt', 'bitshares101', 'blackeyed', 'blindleaf', 'blockcodes', 'blueciruit', 'bluestar', 'bmcv001', 'bodhi.agora', 'bones', 'bones261', 'booja', 'breathe3000', 'breck0882', 'bttgh', 'bullionstackers', 'bythenumbers432', 'canadian-coconut', 'cardsanarchy', 'carpenterlogan', 'cccmar71', 'chaching', 'chahrazad1', 'cheftony', 'chhikara', 'christiansenn', 'cian.dafe', 'cibernatan', 'cjclaro', 'clevecross', 'cnfund', 'codymac40', 'coininstant', 'comcentrate', 'commine', 'condra', 'cousteau', 'crowfromwithin', 'cryptobiker', 'cryptoeasy', 'cryptoid870', 'cryptojoy.com', 'cryptotrends', 'cryptovpn', 'cuckoo', 'cwensor', 'dailybitcoinnews', 'dajohns1420', 'damirkatusic', 'damono', 'dave-hughes', 'davidbrogan', 'dawnlindholm', 'dcat', 'deeallen', 'demeterz01']
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...

Or even better: meet people who are followed by people that you follow

for following in f.following(sys.argv[1]):
        print("%s follows %s" % (following, f.following(following)))
        print(60*"-")

and the result gets interesting...

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jesta follows ['abit', 'andrarchy', 'anwenbaumeister', 'anyx', 'arhag', 'berniesanders', 'biophil', 'cass', 'clains', 'cloverme', 'complexring', 'cryptogee', 'dan', 'dantheman', 'dras', 'fabien', 'fyrstikken', 'hisnameisolllie', 'jamtaylor', 'jasonmcz', 'jeska', 'kevinwong', 'leon-fu', 'liberosist', 'lukmarcus', 'ned', 'originate', 'ozchartart', 'pharesim', 'riverhead', 'roelandp', 'smooth', 'someguy123', 'steemapp', 'steempower', 'stellabelle', 'summon', 'the-alien', 'theoretical', 'tombstone', 'tuck-fheman', 'void', 'wackou', 'xeldal', 'xeroc']
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xeroc follows ['arhag', 'ash', 'bacchist', 'bitcalm', 'blocktrades', 'cass', 'clains', 'clayop', 'complexring', 'cryptoctopus', 'ned', 'officialfuzzy', 'onceuponatime', 'pharesim', 'riverhead', 'stan', 'stellabelle', 'svk']
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I put all examples in GitHub: https://github.com/cryptomental/steem-experiments/commit/6211f20f4247c811f2ef6ff07af33826d6b06a5b
Feel free to experiment more... ;-) I will add this soon to instant-steem

You can investigate ANY STEEM account with this approach.