getTimeline: Returns up to 3,200 recent tweets from a given user

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

Description

getTimeline connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns up to 3,200 recent tweets sent by these user. If the total number of tweets sent by this user is less than 3,200 tweets, it will return all tweets.

Usage

getTimeline(filename, n = 3200, oauth, screen_name = NULL, id = NULL,
  since_id = NULL, trim_user = "false", tweet_mode = "extended",
  sleep = 0.5, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

filename	file where tweets will be stored (in json format)
n	number of tweets to be downloaded (maximum is 3,200)
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.
screen_name	user name of the Twitter user for which his/her tweets will be downloaded
id	id of Twitter user for which his/her tweets will be downloaded (Use either of these two arguments)
since_id	id of the oldest tweet to be downloaded. Useful if, for example, we're only interested in getting tweets sent after a certain date.
trim_user	if "true", downloaded tweets will include user object embedded. If "false", only tweet information will be downloaded.
tweet_mode	if "extended", will return up to 280 characters per tweet.
sleep	numeric, number of seconds between API calls. Higher number will increase reliability of API calls; lower number will increase speed.
verbose	If TRUE, provides additional output in console about API rate limits

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Download recent tweets by user "p_barbera"
 friends <- getTimeline(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth=my_oauth)

## End(Not run)

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