getGroupWall: Get Posts from a Group's Wall

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Description

Returns a data.frame with publicly available information about posts on a group's wall.

Usage

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getGroupWall(group_id, access_token, num_posts = '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_posts

Number of posts to retrieve.

verbose

Boolean: suppress informational messages if FALSE (default).

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

Post ID

date

Date when a post was made

date_POSIXct

Number of seconds since January 1, 1970 to the moment when a post was made

text

Post text

comments_count

Number of comments to a post

likes_count

Number of likes of a post

reposts_count

Number of reposts of a post

reposted

Flag for a repost (1 if a post is a repost)

attachment

Flag for attachments in a post

Additional columns with information about reposts and attachments. See References for details.

Author(s)

Denis Stukal denis.stukal@nyu.edu

References

VK API Methods: Wall (https://vk.com/dev/wall.get)

Examples

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

## End(Not run)

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