search_twitter_and_store: A function to store searched tweets to a database

In ashoksiri/twitteR: R Based Twitter Client

Description

A convenience function designed to wrap the process of running a twitter search and pushing the results to a database. If this is called more than once, the search will start with the most recent tweet already stored.

Usage

search_twitter_and_store(searchString, table_name = "tweets", lang = NULL, 
  locale = NULL, geocode = NULL, retryOnRateLimit = 120, ...)

Arguments

searchString	The search string to use, e.g. as one would in searchTwitter
table_name	The database to store the tweets to, see register_db_backend
lang	If not NULL, restricts tweets to the given language, given by an ISO 639-1 code
locale	If not NULL, will set the locale for the search. As of 03/06/11 only ja is effective, as per the Twitter API
geocode	If not NULL, returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude. See Details in link{searchTwitter}
retryOnRateLimit	If non-zero the search command will block retry up to X times if the rate limit is experienced. This might lead to a much longer run time but the task will eventually complete if the retry count is high enough
...	Optional arguments to be passed to GET

Details

All arguments but table_name are being passed directly to searchTwitter.

This function will check if table_name exists, and if so will also use a sinceID of the most recent ID in the table. The search is performed, the returned tweets are stored in the database via store_tweets_db.

Value

The number of tweets stored

Note

Jeff Gentry

See Also

register_db_backend, searchTwitter, store_tweets_db

Examples

  ## Not run: 
       register_sqlite_backend("sqlit_file")
       n = search_twitter_and_store("#rstats", "rstats_tweets")
  
## End(Not run)

ashoksiri/twitteR documentation built on May 8, 2019, 5:57 p.m.