getGroupMembers: Get Information on Members of a VK Group by Group ID

In denisStukal/Rvk: Access to VK (VKontakte) API through R

Description

Returns a data.frame with publicly available information on members of a VK group by group id.

Usage

getGroupMembers(group_id, access_token, 
    num_users = 'all', verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

group_id	A numeric id for the VK group. Available from the group's page (see Details).
access_token	Your access token (see ?makeAccessToken).
num_users	The number of group members to be returned. Either 'all' (default) or a positive integer.
verbose	Boolean (default: FALSE), whether information about scraping iterations should be printed.

Details

Many VK groups have their ID as part of their URL address (e.g. https://vk.com/publicGROUPID, where GROUPID is a sequence of numbers). In the event a group has a screen name that does not show its ID in the URL, one can access it by clicking on any group post (or photo, video, etc.): the post will open with a new URL of the form https://vk.com/SCREENNAME?w=wall-GROUPID_POSTID). Pass GROUPID (without the minus sign in front of it) to the function call.

Value

A data.frame with columns:

id	group member's user ID
first_name	group member's first name
last_name	group member's last name
...	additional fields depend on publicly available information

Author(s)

Denis Stukal [e-mail]

References

VK API Methods: Group Members (https://vk.com/dev/groups.getMembers)

Examples

## Not run: 
mytoken = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
groupid = AAAAAAAA
dat <- getGroupMembers(group_id = groupid, access_token = mytoken)
str(dat)

## End(Not run)

denisStukal/Rvk documentation built on June 3, 2019, 5:56 p.m.