getRetweets: Returns the list of user IDs that retweeted a specific tweet.

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

Description

getRetweets connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns a list of up to 100 user IDs belonging to users who have retweeted the tweet specified by the id parameter.

Usage

getRetweets(id = NULL, oauth, cursor = -1, verbose = TRUE,
  sleep = 1)

Arguments

id	The numerical ID of the desired status
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/statuses/retweeters/ids
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 recent user IDs retweeting a tweet by Hillary Clinton
 rts <- getRetweets(id='653733796408377344', oauth=my_oauth)

## End(Not run)

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