scrape_tweets: scrape_tweets
In alex-gottlieb/deepIdeology: Scale Ideological Slant of Twitter Posts

Description Usage Arguments Examples

View source: R/scrape_tweets.R

This function scrapes the most recent n Tweets of a list of Twitter users.

1 2	scrape_tweets(screen_names = NULL, ids = NULL, tweets_per_user, credentials_dir, out_dir)

`screen_names`	Character vector of screen names of Twitter users.
`ids`	Character or integer vector of IDs of Twitter users. Use either (but not both) of these two arguments.
`tweets_per_user`	Number of tweets to scrape for each user.
`credentials_dir`	Directory with Twitter OAuth tokens.
`out_dir`	Name of directory to store scraped Tweets.

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data("tweets")
users <- unique(tweets$screen_name)
scrape_tweets(screen_names = users, tweets_per_user = 200, credentials_dir = "credentials", out_dir = "data/scraped_tweets")