getUsers: Returns user data for a vector of up to 100 Twitter user IDs...

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

Description

getUsers connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns user objects (user information) for Twitter users, based on their screen names or user IDs, for up to 100 users

Usage

getUsers(oauth = "~/credentials", screen_names = NULL, ids = NULL,
  include_entities = "true", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

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_names	user names of the Twitter users
ids	ids of Twitter users
include_entities	if "true", returned data will include most recent tweet
verbose	shows additional ouput about token usage in console

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Download user data for users "p_barbera" and "barackobama"
 userdata <- getUsers(screen_names=c("p_barbera", "BarackObama"),
   oauth="~/Dropbox/credentials")

## End(Not run)

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