Invalid literal for int() with base 10:instagram, how to fix?

Question

Python

Tell me how to fix this error, I want to check who is subscribed to my Instagram page and who is not and unsubscribe from them.

Error code

<module>
    followers_count, following_count = int(''.join(followers_count.split(','))), int(''.join(following_count.split(',')))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

swears at this line

followers_count, following_count = int(''.join(followers_count.split(','))), int(''.join(following_count.split(',')))

The whole code, if the number of subscribers is more than 999, remove commas from the number

if ',' in followers_count or following_count:
    followers_count, following_count = int(''.join(followers_count.split(','))), int(''.join(following_count.split(',')))
else:
    followers_count, following_count = int(followers_count), int(following_count)

Answer 1

Can you please provide the code of the entire module, otherwise it is not clear what content is in followers_count and where it came from.
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Answer 2

1. The condition is written incorrectly, it will always be fulfilled.

if ',' in followers_count or ',' in following_count:

2. The error says that as a result followers_countor following_countcontain empty lines. How there was no data there - this is already a question for the code from which page such data was obtained