R/twitter.R

In fschaffner/websearchr: Access Domains and Search Popular Websites

#' Search Twitter
#' @description Improve your workflow by searching Twitter directly from the console without having to switching to the browser and
#' opening a new tab first.
#' @param search_terms Search terms encapsulated in " ".
#' @param lang Specify in which language Twitter should be accessed One of c("en", "de", "es" "fr") for English, German, Spanish and French, respectively.
#' @keywords wikipedia internet workflow
#' @examples
#' twitter("rstudiotips")
#' @export
twitter <- function(search_terms, lang = c("en", "de", "es", "fr")) {
  if (missing(search_terms)) {
    message("Opening Twitter in browser")
    browseURL(paste0("https://www.twitter.com"))
  }
  else {
    if (missing(lang)) {
      lang <- Sys.getenv("LANG")
    }

    # if system language contains "en" use English Twitter version
    if (grepl("en", lang)) {
      message("Opening Twitter search for \"", search_terms, "\" in browser")
      browseURL(paste0("https://twitter.com/search?q=", URLencode(search_terms), "&lang=en"))
    }

    # if system language contains "de" use German Twitter version
    else if (grepl("de", lang)) {
      message("\u00D6ffne Twitter Suche f\u00FCr \"", search_terms, "\" im Browser")
      browseURL(paste0("https://twitter.com/search?q=", URLencode(search_terms), "&lang=de"))
    }

    # if system language contains "es" use Spanish Twitter version
    else if (grepl("es", lang)) {
      message("Abrir b\u00FAsqueda de Twitter para \"", search_terms, "\" en buscador")
      browseURL(paste0("https://twitter.com/search?q=", URLencode(search_terms), "&lang=es"))
    }

    # if system language contains "fr" use French Twitter version
    else if (grepl("fr", lang)) {
      message("Ouvrir Twitter recherche pour \"", search_terms, "\" en navigateur")
      browseURL(paste0("https://twitter.com/search?q=", URLencode(search_terms), "&lang=fr"))
    }

    # if "lang" is not specified and default system language is not
    # English, German, Spanish or French, use the English version
    else {
      message("Opening Twitter search for \"", search_terms, "\" in browser")
      browseURL(paste0("https://twitter.com/search?q=", URLencode(search_terms), "&lang=en"))
    }
  }
}