Authenticate: Create credential to access social media APIs

In SocialMediaLab: Tools for Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

Description

Authenticate creates a credential object that enables R to make authenticated calls to social media APIs. A credential object is a S3 object with the authentication-related information such as access tokens and the information on the social media that grant authentication. Authenticate is the first step of the Authenticate, Collect, Create workflow.

Usage

Authenticate(socialmedia, ...)

Arguments

socialmedia	character string, social media API to authenticate, currently supports "facebook", "youtube", "twitter" and "instagram"
...	additional parameters for authentication facebook: appID, appSecret youtube: apiKey twitter: apiKey, apiSecret, accessToken, accessTokenSecret instagram: appID, appSecret

Value

credential object with authentication information

Note

Currently, Authenticate with socialmedia = "twitter" generates oauth information to be used in the current active session only (i.e. "side-effect") and no authentication-related information will be stored in the returned credential object.

Author(s)

Chung-hong Chan <[e-mail]>

See Also

AuthenticateWithFacebookAPI, AuthenticateWithInstagramAPI, AuthenticateWithYoutubeAPI, AuthenticateWithTwitterAPI, SaveCredential, LoadCredential

Examples

## Not run: 
require(magrittr)
## Instagram ego network example
myAppID <- "123456789098765"
myAppSecret <- "abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab"
myUsernames <- c("senjohnmccain","obama")

Authenticate("instagram",
appID = myAappId,
appSecret = myAppSecret) %>% Collect(ego = TRUE,
username = myUsernames) %>% Create

## YouTube actor network example
my_apiKeyYoutube <- "314159265358979qwerty"
videoIDs <- c("W2GZFeYGU3s","mL27TAJGlWc")

Authenticate("youtube",
apiKey = my_apiKeyYoutube) %>% Collect(videoIDs = videoIDs) %>% Create('actor')

## End(Not run)

SocialMediaLab documentation built on May 29, 2017, 9:41 p.m.