getFollowerIDs: Downloading the follower ids of a list of users

In MorShahrezaye/bigTwitter: tools to download and analyze Twitter data in larger scales

Description

This function takes a single or a list of users (user id or user screen name) and downloads the followers of each user. Either of screen_name_list or user_id_list must be provided

Usage

getFollowerIDs(
  screen_name_list = NULL,
  user_id_list = NULL,
  auth_df,
  sleepTime = 30,
  max_per_user = 15000,
  verbose = F,
  jsonPath = NULL,
  namePattern = "fol-",
  return_results = T
)

Arguments

screen_name_list	A list of Twitter screen names
user_id_list	A list of Twitter numerical ids (as character)
auth_df	The dataframe containing the Twitter keys (check read.keys function)
sleepTime	Sleep time (in seconds) when activating next key
max_per_user	Max number of followers to download per user
verbose	Monitor the process (recommended for debuging!)
jsonPath	Where to save the json files

Value

A list of users and their followers

MorShahrezaye/bigTwitter documentation built on Oct. 26, 2020, 3:41 p.m.