getFollowers: Returns the list of user IDs that correspond to a given...

In lingeringcode/tweetscoresmod: Tools for the Estimation of Ideology Scores with Twitter Data

Description

getFollowers connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns the list of followers of a given user. Note that this function allows the use of multiple OAuth token to make the process more efficient.

Usage

getFollowers(screen_name = NULL, oauth, cursor = -1, user_id = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE, sleep = 1, file = NULL)

Arguments

screen_name	user name of the Twitter user for which their followers will be downloaded
oauth	One of the following: either a list with details for an access token (see example below), a folder where OAuth tokens are stored, or a csv file with the format: consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret.
cursor	See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/followers/ids
user_id	user id of the Twitter user for which their friends will be downloaded
verbose	If TRUE, prints information about API calls on console
sleep	Number of seconds to sleep between API calls.
file	If not NULL, will store followers list in file instead of in memory (useful for users with many followers in computer with low RAM memory).

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Creating OAuth token
 my_oauth <- list(consumer_key = "CONSUMER_KEY",
   consumer_secret = "CONSUMER_SECRET",
   access_token="ACCESS_TOKEN",
   access_token_secret = "ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET")
## Download list of followers of user "p_barbera"
 followers <- getFollowers(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth=my_oauth)

## End(Not run)

lingeringcode/tweetscoresmod documentation built on Feb. 18, 2020, 5:28 p.m.