In brandseye/brandseyer: Provides access to data stored in a BrandsEye account

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BrandsEyeR

BrandsEye is a company that provides online monitoring, analytics, and insights for social media data. We provide an extensive JSON / RESTful API to access to the data that makes up your various BrandsEye accounts. This library is a wrapper for that API, and makes it easy to access the data outside of the BrandsEye application in any R analyses that you might want to perform.

Installing

Installation is currently done via the devtools package:

# Install the devtools package
install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)

# Install the library
install_github("brandseye/brandseyer")

# Load the library
library(brandseyer)

Examples of use

You can create an account object using:

library(brandseyer)
ac <- account("QUIR01BA", key = "<MY API KEY>")    

library(brandseyer)
library(dplyr)
ac <- account("QUIR01BA")    # This requires you to be authenticated

and then you can query it using account_count:

library(dplyr)
# Break down mention counts per country for the month of January, 2015.
filter <- "published after '2015/01/01' and published before '2015/02/01'"
countries <- account_count(ac, filter, groupby = "country") %>%
             # And here we sort by the count field using the dplyr package
             arrange(desc(count))

And here are the first few entries of the returned data frame:

knitr::kable(head(countries))

The call to BrandsEye can be simplified to one line, and can also be done across all of the accounts that you have:

account_count(list_account_codes(), 
              "published after '2015/01/01' and published before '2015/02/01'",
              groupby = "country")

Authentication

You can automate this using the authenticate function:

?authenticate

Specifically, if you're happy having your credentials saved on your hard drive, you can do this:

authenticate(key = "<MY API KEY>", save = TRUE)

Please see the documentation for authenticate for some advice on securing that file.

Contact your client service representative to get your API key. If you are ever concerned that others may have acquired your key, contact client service and they'll supply you with a new one (and invalidate your old).

Documentation

All functions are documented within R itself. Interesting functions to read up on are:

• account, to access account information.
• list_account_codes, to see which accounts you have access to.
• account_count, to pull aggregate data over mentions using the BrandsEye filter language.
• account_mentions, to pull mention data.

The ultimate documentation for the filter language (the filter argument taken by many of the functions for selecting data sets) and the various grouping and inclusions options is the BrandsEye api documentation.

The following resources will be useful when using this library:

• The BrandsEye api documentation
• The BrandsEye Help & Documentation site

Both of the above require access to the BrandsEye app. If you don't already have access, you can contact your client service representative to create a login.

Recent changes

Recent changes are listed in the news file.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2015, Brandseye PTY (LTD)

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