showUsers: Downloading a single user or alist 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 last Tweet and informations on the user. Either of screen_name_list or user_id_list must be provided

Usage

showUsers(
  screen_name_list = NULL,
  user_id_list = NULL,
  include_entities = T,
  auth_df,
  sleepTime = 30,
  verbose = F
)

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
verbose	Monitor the process (recommended for debuging!)

Value

A data.table of last Tweets of each user (all the columns are returned!)

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