getUserFollowersInfo: Get Information on a User's Followers

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

Description

Returns a data.frame with publicly available information about followers of a user.

Usage

getUserFollowersInfo(user_id, access_token, offset = 0)

Arguments

user_id	A numeric id for the user whose followers are requested. Available from the user's page (see Details).
access_token	Your access token (see ?makeAccessToken).
offset	Number of the output element to start scraping from.

Details

Many users have their ID as part of their URL address (e.g. https://vk.com/idUSERID, where USERID is a sequence of numbers). In the event users have screen names that do not show their ID in the URL, one can access them by clicking on the user's post (or photo, video, etc.): the post will open with a new URL of the form https://vk.com/SCREENNAME?w=wall-USERID_POSTID). Pass USERID (without the minus sign in front of it) to the function call.

Universities, schools, and jobs are returned as data.frames.

Value

A data.frame with columns (can vary due to information availability):

id	User ID of a follower
first_name	Follower's first name
last_name	Follower's last name
sex	Follower's sex (available options: female, male)
screen_name	Follower's screen name
bdate	Follower's birth date
city	City code the follower specified in the "Contacts" section
country	Country code the follower specified in the "Contacts" section
relation	Follower's relationship status (1 - single; 2 - in a relationship; 3 - engaged; 4 - married; 5 - it's complicated; 6 - actively searching; 7 - in love; 8 - in a civil union; 0 - not specified.)
...	Other fields if available

For more information about fields, see References.

Author(s)

Denis Stukal [e-mail]

References

VK API Methods: Users (https://vk.com/dev/users.getFollowers)

Examples

## Not run: 
mytoken = 'XXXXXXXX'
userid = AAAAAAA
dat <- getUserFollowersInfo(user_id = userid, access_token = mytoken)
str(dat)

## End(Not run)

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