get_timeline: Get one or more user timelines (tweets posted by target...

In ashoksiri/rtweet: Collecting Twitter Data

Description

Returns up to 3,200 statuses posted to the timelines of each of one or more specified Twitter users.

Usage

get_timeline(user, n = 100, max_id = NULL, home = FALSE, parse = TRUE,
  check = TRUE, token = NULL, ...)

get_timelines(user, n = 100, max_id = NULL, home = FALSE, parse = TRUE,
  check = TRUE, token = NULL, ...)

Arguments

user	Vector of user names, user IDs, or a mixture of both.
n	Number of tweets to return per timeline. Defaults to 100. Must be of length 1 or equal to length of user.
max_id	Character, status_id from which returned tweets should be older than.
home	Logical, indicating whether to return a user-timeline or home-timeline. By default, home is set to FALSE, which means get_timeline returns tweets posted by the given user. To return a user's home timeline feed, that is, the tweets posted by accounts followed by a user, set the home to false.
parse	Logical, indicating whether to return parsed (data.frames) or nested list object. By default, parse = TRUE saves users from the time [and frustrations] associated with disentangling the Twitter API return objects.
check	Logical indicating whether to remove check available rate limit. Ensures the request does not exceed the maximum remaining number of calls. Defaults to TRUE.
token	OAuth token. By default token = NULL fetches a non-exhausted token from an environment variable. Find instructions on how to create tokens and setup an environment variable in the tokens vignette (in r, send ?tokens to console).
...	Further arguments passed on as parameters in API query.

Value

A tbl data frame of tweets data with users data attribute.

See Also

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-user_timeline

Other tweets: get_favorites, get_mentions, lists_statuses, lookup_statuses, search_tweets, tweets_data, tweets_with_users

Examples

## Not run: 

## get most recent 3200 tweets posted by Donald Trump's account
djt <- get_timeline("realDonaldTrump", n = 3200)

## data frame where each observation (row) is a different tweet
djt

## users data for realDonaldTrump is also retrieved
users_data(djt)

## retrieve timelines of mulitple users
tmls <- get_timeline(c("KFC", "ConanOBrien", "NateSilver538"), n = 1000)

## it's returned as one data frame
tmls

## count observations for each timeline
table(tmls$screen_name)


## End(Not run)

ashoksiri/rtweet documentation built on May 8, 2019, 5:55 p.m.