title: How do I get the number of likes on a tweet via tweepy?
body: <p>I have a tweepy tweet object and I can see and print its <code>favorite_count</code> and <code>retweet_count</code> but I do not see a <code>like_count</code> when I print the member variables of the object. Knowing the number of favorites seems a lot less relevant for typical use cases of working with a tweet as it is far more common to like something on Twitter than to favorite it.</p>
  
  <p>I am able to do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>api = tweepy.API(auth)
  tweet = api.get_status(tweet_id)
  print(tweet.retweet_count)
  print(tweet.favorite_count)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but doing </p>
  
  <pre><code>print(tweet.like_count)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does not work and I can't see any alternative. Furthermore when I google things like "tweepy get like count of a tweet" nothing relevant pops up which just seems odd. How can I do this?</p>