Tweepy Cursor Vs Iterative For Low Api Calls

I am writing a simple Tweepy application for fun, but am really limited to how many API calls I have (anywhere between 150 and 350). So to account for this I am looking for ways to

Solution 1:

If I remember correctly from my use of tweepy, a Cursor object automatically paginates over n many elements... For instance, if there are 10,000 results, and Twitter returns (say) 200 at a time, then using the Cursor will return all 10,000 but will have to make a call to keep retrieving the next ones.

OTOH, api.followers_ids() only returns the first "page" of results, so maybe the first 100 or whatever.