get_user_timeline: Get tweets by a single user

In cjbarrie/academictwitteR: Access the Twitter Academic Research Product Track V2 API Endpoint

Get tweets by a single user

Description

This function collects tweets by an user ID from the users endpoint.

Usage

get_user_timeline(
  x,
  start_tweets,
  end_tweets,
  bearer_token = get_bearer(),
  n = 100,
  file = NULL,
  data_path = NULL,
  export_query = TRUE,
  bind_tweets = TRUE,
  page_n = 100,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

x	string containing one user id or a vector of user ids
start_tweets	string, starting date
end_tweets	string, ending date
bearer_token	string, bearer token
n	integer, upper limit of tweets to be fetched
file	string, name of the resulting RDS file
data_path	string, if supplied, fetched data can be saved to the designated path as jsons
export_query	If TRUE, queries are exported to data_path
bind_tweets	If TRUE, tweets captured are bound into a data.frame for assignment
page_n	integer, amount of tweets to be returned by per page
verbose	If FALSE, query progress messages are suppressed
...	arguments will be passed to build_query() function. See ?build_query() for further information.

Details

Only the most recent 3,200 Tweets can be retrieved.

If a filename is supplied, the function will save the result as a RDS file.

If a data path is supplied, the function will also return tweet-level data in a data/ path as a series of JSONs beginning "data_"; while user-level data will be returned as a series of JSONs beginning "users_".

When bind_tweets is TRUE, the function returns a data frame.

Value

a data.frame

Examples

## Not run: 

get_user_timeline("2244994945",
                  start_tweets = "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z", 
                  end_tweets = "2021-05-14T00:00:00Z",
                  bearer_token = get_bearer(),
                  n = 200)

## End(Not run)

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