getFriends: Returns the list of user IDs a given Twitter user follows

In NetDem-USC/netdemR: Tools for analysis of Twitter data

Description

getFriends connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns the list of user IDs a given user follows. Note that this function allows the use of multiple OAuth token to make the process more efficient.

Usage

getFriends(screen_name = NULL, oauth_folder, cursor = -1, user_id = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE, sleep = 1)

Arguments

screen_name	user name of the Twitter user for which their friends will be downloaded
oauth_folder	folder where OAuth tokens are stored.
cursor	See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/friends/ids
user_id	user id of the Twitter user for which their friends will be downloaded
verbose	If TRUE, prints information about API calls on console
sleep	Number of seconds to sleep between API calls.

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Download list of friends of user "p_barbera"
 friends <- getFriends(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth_folder="oauth")

## End(Not run)

NetDem-USC/netdemR documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:06 p.m.