getUsersBatch: Returns user data for a vector of Twitter user IDs or...

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

Description

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

Usage

getUsersBatch(ids = NULL, screen_names = NULL, oauth,
  include_entities = "false", verbose = TRUE, output = NULL)

Arguments

ids	ids of Twitter users
screen_names	user names of the Twitter users
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.
include_entities	if "true", returned data will include most recent tweet
verbose	shows additional ouput about token usage in console
output	If not NULL, will write user data in raw JSON format to that file

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 user data for users "p_barbera" and "barackobama"
 userdata <- getUsersBatch(screen_names=c("p_barbera", "BarackObama"),
   oauth=my_oauth)

## End(Not run)

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