getFriends: Returns the list of user IDs a given Twitter user follows

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

Description

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

Usage

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

Arguments

screen_name	user name of the Twitter user for which their friends 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/friends/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.

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 friends of user "p_barbera"
 friends <- getFriends(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth=my_oauth)

## End(Not run)

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