get_user_network: Get Twitter user network data

In AndrewCarr24/twittercrawler: Collect network data via Twitter's API

Description

get_user_network() takes a Twitter profile name or id number and returns data on this user's network connections, including an edgelist of the user's network.

Usage

get_user_network(
  screen_name = NULL,
  id = NULL,
  degree = 1,
  token = NULL,
  filter_col = NULL,
  filter_val = NULL,
  filter_logic = "any",
  greater = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

screen_name	Twitter user screen name.
id	Twitter user id.
degree	Number of degrees of user's friends/followers to collect.
token	Twitter API token.
filter_col	Name of column of user tibble to filter for Twitter user collection (optional).
filter_val	Value to filter on (optional).
filter_logic	For multiple filters, determines whether to filter based on "any" or "all" criteria (optional).
greater	When filtering number of friends/followers, determines whether filter is ceiling or floor on number of users (optional).
...	Additional arguments used for recursive function call within function.

Value

List with two elements: user tibble and edgelist tibble.

Examples

## Not run: 

# Collect all connections 2 degrees from Twitter user Andrew_Carr24
# ex_token is the api token returned from api_credentials_to_token.

get_user_network(screen_name = "Andrew_Carr24", degree = 2, token = ex_token)

## End(Not run)

AndrewCarr24/twittercrawler documentation built on May 6, 2021, 7:03 p.m.