searchTweets: Search recent tweets
In NetDem-USC/netdemR: Tools for analysis of Twitter data

Description Usage Arguments Author(s) Examples

searchTweets connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns recent tweets (usually no more than 5-7 days old) based on a supplied search string. Note that this function will not return all tweets. As explained in the documentation (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search), the goal of this API endpoint is relevance and not completeness.

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searchTweets(q, filename, n = 200, oauth_folder = "~/credentials",
  until = NULL, since_id = NULL, result_type = "recent", lang = NULL,
  sleep = 0.5, verbose = FALSE)

`q`	search query to issue to Twitter. It can contain Boolean operators.
`filename`	file where tweets will be stored (in json format)
`n`	maximum number of tweets to be downloaded
`oauth_folder`	folder where OAuth tokens are stored.
`until`	limit for the most recent tweet. The function will then returns tweets created before this date. Date should be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. Keep in mind that the search index has a 7-day limit
`since_id`	id of the oldest tweet to be downloaded. Useful if, for example, we're only interested in getting tweets sent after a certain date.
`result_type`	specifies the type of results you would prefer to receive: "recent" (default), "popular" or "mixed".
`lang`	restricts tweets to the given language (e.g. "es")
`sleep`	numeric, number of seconds between API calls. Higher number will increase reliability of API calls; lower number will increase speed.
`verbose`	If TRUE, provides additional output in console about API rate limits

Pablo Barbera pbarbera@usc.edu

## Not run: 
## Download recent tweets by user "p_barbera"
 searchTweets(q="twitter", filename="twitter-tweets.json", 
   n=200, oauth_folder="oauth")

## End(Not run)