getUserWallComments: Get Comments to Posts from a User Page

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Description

Returns a data.frame with information about comments to posts on a user page.

Usage

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getUserWallComments(user_id, num_posts = 'all', access_token, verbose = FALSE, offset = 0)

Arguments

user_id

A numeric user ID. Available from the user's page (see Details).

num_posts

Number of posts to consider. Either 'all' (default) or a positive integer.

access_token

Your access token (see ?makeAccessToken).

verbose

Boolean: if FALSE (default), informational messages are suppressed.

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.

Value

Returns a data.frame with columns:

comment_id

A numeric ID of the comment.

commenter_id

A numeric ID of the user who left the comment.

date

Date of the comment.

text

Text of the comment.

likes_count

Number of likes the comment received.

reply_to_user

The numeric ID of the user whom the comment replies to (if the comment is a reply), or NA

reply_to_comment

The numeric ID of the comment which the comment replies to (if the comment is a reply), or NA

user_id_wall

User ID on whose wall the comment was posted.

to_post_id

Post ID which the comment was left on.

Author(s)

Denis Stukal denis.stukal@nyu.edu

References

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

Examples

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

## End(Not run)

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