getUsers: Returns user data for up to 100 Twitter users

In SMAPPNYU/smappR: Tools for analysis of Twitter data

Description

getUsers connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns user objects (user information) for up to 100 Twitter users, based on their screen names or user IDs

Usage

getUsers(oauth_folder = "~/credentials", screen_names = NULL, id = NULL,
  include_entities = "true", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

oauth_folder	folder where OAuth tokens are stored.
screen_names	user names of the Twitter users
id	ids of Twitter users
include_entities	if "true", returned data will include most recent tweet
verbose	shows additional ouput about token usage in console

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Download user data for user "p_barbera"
 userdata <- getUsers(screen_names="p_barbera", oauth_folder="oauth")

## End(Not run)

SMAPPNYU/smappR documentation built on May 9, 2019, 11:19 a.m.