GET lists/subscriptions

Obtain a collection of the lists the specified user is subscribed to, 20 lists per page by default. Does not include the user’s own lists.

Resource URL

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/subscriptions.json

Resource Information

Response formats JSON
Requires authentication? Yes
Rate limited? Yes
Requests / 15-min window (user auth) 15
Requests / 15-min window (app auth) 15

Parameters

Name Required Description Default Value Example
user_id optional The ID of the user for whom to return results. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.    
screen_name optional The screen name of the user for whom to return results. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid screen name is also a user ID.    
count optional The amount of results to return per page. Defaults to 20. No more than 1000 results will ever be returned in a single page.    
cursor optional Breaks the results into pages. Provide a value of -1 to begin paging. Provide values as returned in the response body’s next_cursor and previous_cursor attributes to page back and forth in the list. It is recommended to always use cursors when the method supports them. See Cursoring for more information.    

Example Request

GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/subscriptions.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=episod&count=5

Example Response

{
  "previous_cursor": 0,
  "lists": [
    {
      "slug": "team",
      "name": "team",
      "uri": "/TwitterEng/team",
      "created_at": "Mon Oct 03 02:48:07 +0000 2011",
      "subscriber_count": 131,
      "id_str": "55932616",
      "member_count": 324,
      "mode": "public",
      "id": 55932616,
      "full_name": "@TwitterEng/team",
      "description": "",
      "user": {
        "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C6E2EE",
        "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DAECF4",
        "profile_background_tile": false,
        "expanded_url": null,
        "name": "Twitter Engineering",
        "location": "San Francisco, CA",
        "created_at": "Sat Jun 16 00:14:36 +0000 2007",
        "profile_image_url": "http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1262149685/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite_normal.png",
        "is_translator": false,
        "profile_link_color": "1F98C7",
        "follow_request_sent": null,
        "id_str": "6844292",
        "entities": {
          "urls": [

          ],
          "hashtags": [

          ],
          "user_mentions": [

          ]
        },
        "url": "http://engineering.twitter.com",
        "default_profile": false,
        "favourites_count": 0,
        "contributors_enabled": true,
        "id": 6844292,
        "utc_offset": -14400,
        "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1262149685/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite_normal.png",
        "profile_use_background_image": true,
        "listed_count": 1493,
        "profile_text_color": "663B12",
        "lang": "en",
        "followers_count": 132674,
        "protected": false,
        "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme2/bg.gif",
        "verified": true,
        "geo_enabled": true,
        "notifications": null,
        "time_zone": "Atlantic Time (Canada)",
        "description": "The official account for Twitter Engineering.",
        "profile_background_color": "C6E2EE",
        "profile_background_image_url": "http://a1.twimg.com/images/themes/theme2/bg.gif",
        "default_profile_image": false,
        "statuses_count": 61,
        "friends_count": 0,
        "display_url": null,
        "screen_name": "TwitterEng",
        "following": null,
        "show_all_inline_media": true
      },
      "following": false
    },
    {
      "slug": "the-brain-trust",
      "name": "The Brain Trust",
      "uri": "/LTRK140/the-brain-trust",
      "created_at": "Sun Mar 06 20:01:50 +0000 2011",
      "subscriber_count": 24,
      "id_str": "37396827",
      "member_count": 148,
      "mode": "public",
      "id": 37396827,
      "full_name": "@LTRK140/the-brain-trust",
      "description": "Twitter Artists, Ascii, Unicode Art.",
      "user": {
        "profile_sidebar_border_color": "080000",
        "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "",
        "profile_background_tile": true,
        "name": "﹅█▄▀█▀ █▀▐━▀▄ ▌◢▌██﹅",
        "location": "Toronto",
        "created_at": "Fri Jun 04 16:48:39 +0000 2010",
        "profile_image_url": "http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1315622089/Cool_Daddy_normal.png",
        "is_translator": false,
        "profile_link_color": "080000",
        "follow_request_sent": false,
        "id_str": "151938348",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/KREWZO",
        "favourites_count": 10,
        "contributors_enabled": false,
        "default_profile": false,
        "id": 151938348,
        "utc_offset": -28800,
        "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1315622089/Cool_Daddy_normal.png",
        "profile_use_background_image": true,
        "listed_count": 131,
        "profile_text_color": "000000",
        "lang": "en",
        "followers_count": 838,
        "protected": false,
        "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/285103295/ltrk140.JPG",
        "verified": false,
        "geo_enabled": true,
        "notifications": false,
        "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
        "description": "▓⁄─⁄⁄﹅█▄▀█▀ █▀▐━▀▄ ▌◢▌██﹅⁄─⁄⁄▓  rn  •140•ASCII•UNICODE•ART• BY OZ MELO   •  I LIVE & WORK IN #YYZ.     ★★ MOST TWEETS ARE BEST VIEWED AS A STATUS PAGE ★★   █♥█",
        "profile_background_color": "030003",
        "profile_background_image_url": "http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/285103295/ltrk140.JPG",
        "default_profile_image": false,
        "statuses_count": 1006,
        "friends_count": 139,
        "screen_name": "LTRK140",
        "following": false,
        "show_all_inline_media": true
      },
      "following": false
    },
    {
      "slug": "twoutside-lands",
      "name": "Twoutside Lands",
      "uri": "/dannyhertz/twoutside-lands",
      "created_at": "Fri Aug 12 07:21:25 +0000 2011",
      "subscriber_count": 12,
      "id_str": "52270561",
      "member_count": 25,
      "mode": "public",
      "id": 52270561,
      "full_name": "@dannyhertz/twoutside-lands",
      "description": "Tweeps @ Outside Lands 2011",
      "user": {
        "profile_sidebar_border_color": "4685e3",
        "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "c7dced",
        "profile_background_tile": false,
        "expanded_url": "http://www.dannyhertz.com",
        "name": "Danny Hertz",
        "location": "San Francisco",
        "created_at": "Sat Nov 15 02:26:09 +0000 2008",
        "profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1546221308/6153868543_d7ab87737a_b_normal.jpeg",
        "is_translator": true,
        "profile_link_color": "005082",
        "follow_request_sent": false,
        "id_str": "17400516",
        "entities": {
          "urls": [

          ],
          "hashtags": [

          ],
          "user_mentions": [

          ]
        },
        "url": "http://t.co/90RtgWI",
        "favourites_count": 243,
        "contributors_enabled": false,
        "default_profile": false,
        "id": 17400516,
        "utc_offset": -28800,
        "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1546221308/6153868543_d7ab87737a_b_normal.jpeg",
        "profile_use_background_image": true,
        "listed_count": 52,
        "profile_text_color": "000000",
        "lang": "en",
        "followers_count": 2684,
        "protected": false,
        "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/331345358/pamperedpuppy20091103.jpeg",
        "verified": false,
        "geo_enabled": true,
        "notifications": false,
        "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
        "description": "Software Engineer on the User Services team at Twitter and lead singer for the rock band Journey.",
        "profile_background_color": "ffffff",
        "profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/331345358/pamperedpuppy20091103.jpeg",
        "default_profile_image": false,
        "statuses_count": 2318,
        "friends_count": 261,
        "display_url": "dannyhertz.com",
        "screen_name": "dannyhertz",
        "following": false,
        "show_all_inline_media": true
      },
      "following": false
    },
    {
      "slug": "july-6-curators",
      "name": "July 6 curators",
      "uri": "/townhall/july-6-curators",
      "created_at": "Mon Jul 04 20:37:28 +0000 2011",
      "subscriber_count": 58,
      "id_str": "49286494",
      "member_count": 8,
      "mode": "public",
      "id": 49286494,
      "full_name": "@townhall/july-6-curators",
      "description": "Curators helping for the Town Hall at the White House on July 6th at 2pm ET",
      "user": {
        "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
        "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
        "profile_background_tile": true,
        "name": "Town Hall",
        "location": "",
        "created_at": "Tue May 31 01:50:52 +0000 2011",
        "profile_image_url": "http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1419432899/avatar_normal.png",
        "is_translator": false,
        "profile_link_color": "0084B4",
        "follow_request_sent": null,
        "id_str": "308230587",
        "url": "http://askobama.twitter.com",
        "default_profile": false,
        "favourites_count": 0,
        "contributors_enabled": true,
        "id": 308230587,
        "utc_offset": -28800,
        "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1419432899/avatar_normal.png",
        "profile_use_background_image": true,
        "listed_count": 517,
        "profile_text_color": "333333",
        "lang": "en",
        "followers_count": 24456,
        "protected": false,
        "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/280500767/bg.jpg",
        "verified": true,
        "geo_enabled": false,
        "notifications": null,
        "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
        "description": "Official account for Twitter hosted town halls. Our first on July 6th, 2PM ET. ",
        "profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
        "profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/280500767/bg.jpg",
        "default_profile_image": false,
        "statuses_count": 100,
        "friends_count": 2,
        "screen_name": "townhall",
        "following": null,
        "show_all_inline_media": true
      },
      "following": false
    },
    {
      "slug": "streaming-music-industry",
      "name": "Streaming Music Industry ",
      "uri": "/meetmarshall/streaming-music-industry",
      "created_at": "Thu Mar 31 04:04:10 +0000 2011",
      "subscriber_count": 193,
      "id_str": "41857276",
      "member_count": 1,
      "mode": "public",
      "id": 41857276,
      "full_name": "@meetmarshall/streaming-music-industry",
      "description": "A custom list created by adding, subtracting or filtering existing lists (made using @formulists)",
      "user": {
        "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
        "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
        "profile_background_tile": false,
        "name": "Marshall Kirkpatrick",
        "location": "",
        "created_at": "Mon Mar 28 20:18:47 +0000 2011",
        "profile_image_url": "http://a3.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_0_normal.png",
        "is_translator": false,
        "profile_link_color": "0084B4",
        "follow_request_sent": false,
        "id_str": "273602749",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/marshallk",
        "default_profile": true,
        "favourites_count": 0,
        "contributors_enabled": false,
        "id": 273602749,
        "utc_offset": -28800,
        "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_0_normal.png",
        "profile_use_background_image": true,
        "listed_count": 3,
        "profile_text_color": "333333",
        "lang": "en",
        "followers_count": 29,
        "protected": false,
        "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
        "verified": false,
        "geo_enabled": false,
        "notifications": false,
        "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
        "description": "I just came for the lists.",
        "profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
        "profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
        "default_profile_image": true,
        "statuses_count": 3,
        "friends_count": 146,
        "screen_name": "meetmarshall",
        "following": false,
        "show_all_inline_media": false
      },
      "following": false
    }
  ],
  "previous_cursor_str": "0",
  "next_cursor": 1364811190668631091,
  "next_cursor_str": "1364811190668631091"
}