getUserWall: Get Posts from a User Wall

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

Description

Returns a data.frame with publicly available information about posts from a user wall

Usage

getUserWall(user_id, access_token, num_posts = 'all', verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

user_id	Numeric user ID. Available from user page (see Details).
access_token	Your access token (see ?makeAccessToken).
num_posts	Number of posts to consider. Either 'all' (default) or a positive integer.
verbose	Boolean: suppress informational messages if FALSE (default).

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.

There are 2 ways to specify the number of posts to retrieve. The user can either pass that number to the function call through the n argument, over (default) interactively type that number when prompted after the function reports the total number of available posts.

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 [e-mail]

References

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

Examples

## Not run: 
mytoken = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
userid = AAAAAAAA
dat <- getUserWall(user_id = userid, access_token = mytoken)
str(dat)

## End(Not run)

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