auth_twitter_app: Twitter App API authentication

In vosonSML: Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

Twitter App API authentication

Description

If an individual has applied for and been granted Twitter API access they will also have a bearer token associated with their app. This token allows read-only access to the API but higher rate-limits so it is the most suited method for this package and data collection.

Usage

auth_twitter_app(bearer, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

bearer	Character string. Twitter app bearer token.
verbose	Logical. Output additional information. Default is FALSE.
...	Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

A credential object containing an access token $auth and social media type descriptor $socialmedia set to "twitter". Object has the class names "credential" and "twitter".

Note

vosonSML uses the rtweet package for twitter data collection and also gratefully acknowledges the techniques and code written by its authors reproduced in this package for creating twitter API access tokens.

Examples

## Not run: 
# twitter API access using an app bearer token
auth <- auth_twitter_app("xxxxxxxxxxxx")

## End(Not run)

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