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VB6 / Twitter API v2 / Followers of user ID

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' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp
Dim success As Long

' Adds the "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" header.
http.AuthToken = "<access_token>"

Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = http.QuickGetSb("https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id/followers",sbResponseBody)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Response status code = " & http.LastStatus
Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()

Curl Command

curl -X GET
	-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"
https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id/followers

Postman Collection Item JSON

{
  "name": "Followers of user ID",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "header": [
    ],
    "url": {
      "raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id/followers",
      "protocol": "https",
      "host": [
        "api",
        "twitter",
        "com"
      ],
      "path": [
        "2",
        "users",
        ":id",
        "followers"
      ],
      "query": [
        {
          "key": "user.fields",
          "value": "",
          "description": "Comma-separated fields for the user object.\nAllowed values:\ncreated_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld\nDefault values:\nid,name,username",
          "disabled": true
        },
        {
          "key": "expansions",
          "value": "",
          "description": "Expansions enable requests to expand an ID into a full object in the includes response object.\nAllowed value:\npinned_tweet_id\nDefault value: none",
          "disabled": true
        },
        {
          "key": "tweet.fields",
          "value": "",
          "description": "Comma-separated list of fields for the Tweet object. Expansion required.\nAllowed values:\nattachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld\nDefault values:\nid,text\nOAuth1.0a User Context authorization required if any of the following fields are included in the request:\nnon_public_metrics,organic_metrics,promoted_metrics",
          "disabled": true
        },
        {
          "key": "max_results",
          "value": "",
          "description": "The maximum number of results to be returned by a request.\nAllowed values: 10 through 1000.\nDefault value: 100",
          "disabled": true
        },
        {
          "key": "pagination_token",
          "value": "",
          "description": "This parameter is used to get the next 'page' of results. The value used with the parameter is pulled directly from the response provided by the API, and should not be modified.",
          "disabled": true
        }
      ],
      "variable": [
        {
          "key": "id",
          "value": "",
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Required. Enter a single user ID."
        }
      ]
    },
    "description": "Returns a list of users who are followers of the specified user ID.\n\nFor full details, see the [API reference](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/users/follows/api-reference/get-users-id-followers) for this endpoint.\n\n[Sign up](https://t.co/signup) for the Twitter API"
  },
  "response": [
  ]
}