Connections: Class to manage the connections with twitter and youtube

In miferreiro/bdp4R: Big Data Preprocessing For R

Description

The tasks of the functions that the Connections class has are to establish the connections and control the number of requests that have been made.

Usage

Connections$new(keysPath)

Arguments

keysPath

(character) Path of the .ini file that contains the keys.

Format

An object of class R6ClassGenerator of length 24.

Details

The way to indicate the keys of youtube and twitter has to be through an .ini file that contains the following structure:

[twitter]

ConsumerKey=YourConsumerKey

ConsumerSecret=YourConsumerSecret

AccessToken=YourAccessToken

AccessTokenSecret=YourAccessTokenSecret

[youtube]

app_id=YourAppId

app_password=YourAppPassword

Methods

• getTwitterToken Getter of twitterToken.

  • Usage

    getTwitterToken()

  • Value

    Value of twitterToken.

• startConnectionWithTwitter Function that establishes the connection to twitter. If the connection has not been established, the keys necessary to make the connection are indicated in the setup_twitter_oauth function. Then it is indicated that the connection has been established.

  • Usage

    startConnectionWithTwitter()

• checkRequestToTwitter Function that controls the connection with twitter. If the limit of twitter requests has been exceeded, 15 minutes are expected.

  • Usage

    checkRequestToTwitter()

• startConnectionWithYoutube Function that establishes the connection to youtube. If the connection has not been established, the keys necessary to make the connection are indicated in the yt_oauth function. Then it is indicated that the connection has been established.

  • Usage

    startConnectionWithYoutube()

• addNumRequestToYoutube Function that increases in one the number of request to youtube.

  • Usage

    addNumRequestToYoutube()

• checkRequestToYoutube Function that controls the connection with youtube. If the limit of youtube requests has been exceeded, 15 minutes are expected.

  • Usage

    checkRequestToYoutube()

• getNumRequestMaxToYoutube Getter of num max of from Youtube.

  • Usage

    getNumRequestMaxToYoutube()

  • Value

    Value of num max of from Youtube.

Private fields

• keys (list) The keys of twitter and youtube.

• numRequestToYoutube (numeric) Indicates the number of requests made.

• numRequestMaxToYoutube (numeric) Indicates the maximum number of requests with Youtube.

• connectionWithYoutube (logical) Indicates if the connection has been established with Youtube.

• connectionWithTwitter (logical) Indicates if the connection has been established with Twitter.

• twitterToken (Token) Token to establish the connection to twitter.

See Also

ExtractorTwtid, ExtractorYtbid

miferreiro/bdp4R documentation built on May 20, 2019, 12:59 a.m.