Re: [twitter-dev] convert large number of usernames to userids

The solution for this would involve coding if it were me.

Store the usernames in an array.
Loop through the array while calling: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=<screen_name>
Parse out the id.

Cheers, Barce

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Riley <digitalsimplified@gmail.com> wrote:

How would I go about converting a large number of usernames (300+) to
userids? My plan is to use user/follow, which uses userids. I have
tried using users/lookup (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/
lookup), but I need the OAuth of the users I am looking up, which I
don't have.  I could use user/show but that would take a long time, I
am hoping to find something more efficient.  Thank you.

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