get_live_chat_messages: Get Live Chat Messages

In tuber: Client for the YouTube API

Get Live Chat Messages

Description

Retrieves live chat messages for a specific live chat. Note that live chat messages can only be retrieved for active live broadcasts.

Usage

get_live_chat_messages(
  live_chat_id,
  part = "snippet,authorDetails",
  hl = NULL,
  max_results = 500,
  page_token = NULL,
  profile_image_size = NULL,
  simplify = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

live_chat_id	Character. The id of the live chat.
part	Character. Parts to retrieve. Valid values are "snippet", "authorDetails". Default is "snippet,authorDetails".
hl	Character. Language used for text values. Optional.
max_results	Integer. Maximum number of items to return. Default is 500. Max is 2000.
page_token	Character. Specific page token to retrieve. Optional.
profile_image_size	Integer. Size of the profile image to return. Optional.
simplify	Logical. Whether to return a simplified data.frame. Default is TRUE.
...	Additional arguments passed to tuber_GET.

Value

A data.frame or list of live chat messages.

References

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveChatMessages/list

Examples

## Not run: 
# Set API token via yt_oauth() first

messages <- get_live_chat_messages(live_chat_id = "Cg0KC...")

## End(Not run)

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