tw_api_get_statuses_user_timeline: Gets status updates (tweets) from a given user

In gvegayon/twitterreport: Out-of-the-Box Analysis and Reporting Tools for Twitter

Description

Using the twitter API, gets the status updates of a given user (up to 3,200)

Usage

tw_api_get_statuses_user_timeline(screen_name = NULL, twitter_token,
  user_id = NULL, since_id = NULL, count = 100, max_id = NULL,
  exclude_replies = NULL, include_rts = NULL, quietly = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

screen_name	of the user
twitter_token	An object of class Token1.0 as generated by tw_gen_token.
user_id	The ID of the user for whom to return results for
since_id	Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID
count	Number of statuses to get
max_id	Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID
exclude_replies	This parameter will prevent replies from appearing in the returned timeline
include_rts	When set to false, the timeline will strip any native retweets
quietly	Whether or not to show the 'success' message
...	Additional arguments passed to GET()

Details

This function is designed to be applied to a large list of twitter accounts, see the example below.

From twitter

Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the user indicated by the screen_name or user_id parameters.

Value

A data.frame with tweets (if success), with the following columns:

• screen_name

• in_reply_to_screen_name

• user_id

• created_at

• id

• text

• source

• truncated

• retweet_count

• favourites_count

• favorited

• retweeted

• coordinates

• source_name

otherwise returns NULL.

Author(s)

George G. Vega Yon

References

Twitter REST API (GET statuses/user_timeline) https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline

See Also

tw_extract()

Other API functions: tw_api_get_followers_ids, tw_api_get_followers_list, tw_api_get_friends_ids, tw_api_get_search_tweets, tw_api_get_statuses_sample, tw_api_get_trends_place, tw_api_get_users_search, tw_api_get_users_show, tw_api_trends_available, tw_gen_token

Examples

## Not run: 
# List of twitter accounts
users <- c('MarsRovers', 'senatormenendez', 'sciencemagazine')

# Getting the twitts (first gen the token)
key <- tw_gen_token('myapp','key', 'secret')
tweets <- lapply(users, tw_api_get_statuses_user_timeline, twitter_token=key)

# Processing the data (and taking a look)
tweets <- do.call(rbind, tweets)
head(tweets)

## End(Not run)

gvegayon/twitterreport documentation built on May 17, 2019, 9:30 a.m.