#' @rdname getTimeline
#' @export
#'
#' @title
#' Returns up to 3,200 recent tweets from a given user
#'
#' @description
#' \code{getTimeline} connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns up to
#' 3,200 recent tweets sent by these user. If the total number of tweets sent
#' by this user is less than 3,200 tweets, it will return all tweets.
#'
#' @author
#' Pablo Barbera \email{pbarbera@@usc.edu}
#'
#' @param filename file where tweets will be stored (in json format)
#'
#' @param n number of tweets to be downloaded (maximum is 3,200)
#'
#' @param screen_name user name of the Twitter user for which his/her tweets
#' will be downloaded
#'
#' @param id id of Twitter user for which his/her tweets will be downloaded
#' (Use either of these two arguments)
#'
#' @param oauth_folder folder where OAuth tokens are stored.
#'
#' @param 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.
#'
#' @param trim_user if "true", downloaded tweets will include user object
#' embedded. If "false", only tweet information will be downloaded.
#'
#' @param sleep numeric, number of seconds between API calls. Higher number
#' will increase reliability of API calls; lower number will increase speed.
#'
#' @param verbose If TRUE, provides additional output in console about API
#' rate limits
#'
#' @examples \dontrun{
#' ## Download recent tweets by user "p_barbera"
#' friends <- getTimeline(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth_folder="oauth")
#' }
#'
getTimeline <- function(filename, n=3200, oauth_folder="~/credentials", screen_name=NULL,
id=NULL, since_id=NULL, trim_user="true", sleep=.5, verbose=FALSE){
## create list of credentials
creds <- list.files(oauth_folder, full.names=T)
## open a random credential
cr <- sample(creds, 1)
if (verbose) message(cr)
load(cr)
## while rate limit is 0, open a new one
limit <- getLimitTimeline(my_oauth)
if (verbose) message(limit, " hits left")
while (limit==0){
cr <- sample(creds, 1)
if (verbose) message(cr)
load(cr)
Sys.sleep(sleep)
# sleep for 5 minutes if limit rate is less than 100
rate.limit <- getLimitRate(my_oauth)
if (rate.limit<100){
Sys.sleep(300)
}
limit <- getLimitTimeline(my_oauth)
if (verbose) message(limit, " hits left")
}
## url to call
url <- "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json"
## first API call
if (!is.null(screen_name)){
params <- list(screen_name = screen_name, count=200, trim_user=trim_user)
}
if (!is.null(id)){
params <- list(id=id, count=200, trim_user=trim_user)
}
if (!is.null(since_id)){
params[["since_id"]] <- since_id
}
query <- lapply(params, function(x) URLencode(as.character(x)))
# preparing OAuth token for httr
options("httr_oauth_cache"=FALSE)
app <- httr::oauth_app("twitter", key = my_oauth$consumerKey,
secret = my_oauth$consumerSecret)
credentials <- list(oauth_token = my_oauth$oauthKey, oauth_token_secret = my_oauth$oauthSecret)
twitter_token <- httr::Token1.0$new(endpoint = NULL, params = list(as_header = TRUE),
app = app, credentials = credentials)
# first query
url.data <- httr::GET(url, query = query, httr::config(token = twitter_token))
Sys.sleep(sleep)
## one API call less
limit <- limit - 1
## changing oauth token if we hit the limit
if (verbose) message(limit, " hits left")
cr_old <- cr
while (limit==0){
cr <- sample(creds, 1)
if (verbose) message(cr)
load(cr)
Sys.sleep(sleep)
# sleep for 5 minutes if limit rate is less than 100
rate.limit <- getLimitRate(my_oauth)
if (rate.limit<100){
Sys.sleep(300)
}
limit <- getLimitTimeline(my_oauth)
if (verbose) message(limit, " hits left")
}
if (cr != cr_old) {
app <- httr::oauth_app("twitter", key = my_oauth$consumerKey,
secret = my_oauth$consumerSecret)
credentials <- list(oauth_token = my_oauth$oauthKey, oauth_token_secret = my_oauth$oauthSecret)
twitter_token <- httr::Token1.0$new(endpoint = NULL, params = list(as_header = TRUE),
app = app, credentials = credentials)
}
## trying to parse JSON data
## json.data <- fromJSON(url.data, unexpected.escape = "skip")
json.data <- httr::content(url.data)
if (length(json.data$error)!=0){
message(url.data)
stop("error! Last cursor: ", cursor)
}
## writing to disk
conn <- file(filename, "a")
ret <- lapply(json.data, function(x) writeLines(jsonlite::toJSON(x, null="null"), con=conn, useBytes=TRUE))
close(conn)
## max_id
tweets <- length(json.data)
max_id <- json.data[[tweets]]$id_str
message(tweets, " tweets. Max id: ", max_id)
max_id_old <- "none"
if (is.null(since_id)) {since_id <- 1}
while (tweets < n & max_id != max_id_old &
as.numeric(max_id) > as.numeric(since_id)){
max_id_old <- max_id
if (!is.null(screen_name)){
params <- list(screen_name = screen_name, count=200, max_id=max_id,
trim_user=trim_user)
}
if (!is.null(id)){
params <- list(id=id, count=200, max_id=max_id, trim_user=trim_user)
}
if (!is.null(since_id) && since_id != 1 ){
params[['since_id']] <- since_id
}
query <- lapply(params, function(x) URLencode(as.character(x)))
url.data <- httr::GET(url, query = query, httr::config(token = twitter_token))
Sys.sleep(sleep)
## one API call less
limit <- limit - 1
## changing oauth token if we hit the limit
message(limit, " hits left")
cr_old <- cr
while (limit==0){
cr <- sample(creds, 1)
message(cr)
load(cr)
Sys.sleep(sleep)
# sleep for 5 minutes if limit rate is less than 100
rate.limit <- getLimitRate(my_oauth)
if (rate.limit<100){
Sys.sleep(300)
}
limit <- getLimitTimeline(my_oauth)
message(limit, " hits left")
}
if (cr != cr_old) {
app <- httr::oauth_app("twitter", key = my_oauth$consumerKey,
secret = my_oauth$consumerSecret)
credentials <- list(oauth_token = my_oauth$oauthKey, oauth_token_secret = my_oauth$oauthSecret)
twitter_token <- httr::Token1.0$new(endpoint = NULL, params = list(as_header = TRUE),
app = app, credentials = credentials)
}
## trying to parse JSON data
## json.data <- fromJSON(url.data, unexpected.escape = "skip")
json.data <- httr::content(url.data)
if (length(json.data$error)!=0){
message(url.data)
stop("error! Last cursor: ", cursor)
}
## writing to disk
conn <- file(filename, "a")
ret <- lapply(json.data, function(x) writeLines(jsonlite::toJSON(x, null="null"), con=conn, useBytes=TRUE))
close(conn)
## max_id
tweets <- tweets + length(json.data)
max_id <- json.data[[length(json.data)]]$id_str
message(tweets, " tweets. Max id: ", max_id)
}
}
getLimitTimeline <- function(my_oauth){
url <- "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/application/rate_limit_status.json"
params <- list(resources = "statuses,application")
response <- my_oauth$OAuthRequest(URL=url, params=params, method="GET",
cainfo=system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package = "RCurl"))
return(unlist(rjson::fromJSON(response)$resources$statuses$`/statuses/user_timeline`[['remaining']]))
}
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