stream_tweets: Collect a live stream of Twitter data
In rtweet: Collecting Twitter Data

stream_tweets

R Documentation

Collect a live stream of Twitter data

Streams public statuses to a file via one of the following four methods:

Learn more in vignette("stream", package = "rtweet")

stream_tweets(
  q = "",
  timeout = 30,
  parse = TRUE,
  token = NULL,
  file_name = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE,
  append = TRUE,
  ...
)

`q`	Query used to select and customize streaming collection method. There are four possible methods: The default, `q = ""`, returns a small random sample of all publicly available Twitter statuses. To filter by keyword, provide a comma separated character string with the desired phrase(s) and keyword(s). Track users by providing a comma separated list of user IDs or screen names. Use four latitude/longitude bounding box points to stream by geo location. This must be provided via a vector of length 4, e.g., `c(-125, 26, -65, 49)`.
`timeout`	Integer specifying number of seconds to stream tweets for. Stream indefinitely with `timeout = Inf`. The stream can be interrupted at any time, and `file_name` will still be valid file.
`parse`	Use `FALSE` to opt-out of parsing the tweets.
`token`	Use this to override authentication for a single API call. In many cases you are better off changing the default for all calls. See `auth_as()` for details.
`file_name`	Character with name of file. If not specified, will write to a temporary file `stream_tweets*.json`.
`verbose`	If `TRUE`, display a progress bar.
`append`	If `TRUE`, will append to the end of `file_name`; if `FALSE`, will overwrite.
`...`	Other arguments passed in to query parameters.

A tibble with one row per tweet

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