Twitter – n API that returns Twitter usernames

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I am looking to compile a list of URLs and associated Twitter usernames. Is there an API that you can provide a URL to and it would return a Twitter username?

Clearbit has an API for sending a URL and getting a logo in return. https://clearbit.com/

Was wondering if anyone knew of a similar API for Twitter handles.

Best Answer

You are looking for GET users/show

This returns a variety of information about the user specified by the required user_id or screen_name parameter.

GET users / lookup is used to retrieve a bulk collection of user objects.

Resource URL:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json

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Certain domain names (like .com) or URLs are prohibited and can't be used as usernames for Twitter accounts. However, you can try to "fool" Twitter and use the unicode character One Dot Leader U+2024, that looks like a dot.

Example:

domain․com

Many editors (like Notepad++) do not recognize this symbol (produces an empty box instead), but it can be copied to the clipboard (tested on Windows 7) and pasted to the Edit profile input box in Twitter.

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