get_pw_pol: Get politician data from the US Politwoops project

In kateto/PolitwoopsR: Download Deleted Political Tweets From The Politwoops Project

Description

This function scrapes politician data from the US Politwoops project maintained by the Sunlight Foundation. The data is online at http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/users.

Usage

get_pw_pol(start.page = 1, end.page = "all")

Arguments

start.page	The first page to get - defaults to page 1 (http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/users?page=1)
end.page	The last page to get - defaults to the last available page.

Value

Data frame with politician info from Politwoops.

Author(s)

Katya Ognyanova [e-mail]

See Also

get_pw_tweets merge_pw

Examples

## Not run: 

# Get all the politician data:
pol.df <- get_pw_pol()

# Get the first 5 pages of politicians:
pol.df <- get_pw_pol(1, 5)


## End(Not run)

kateto/PolitwoopsR documentation built on May 20, 2019, 7:41 a.m.