post_list: Manage Twitter lists

In nicolofcavalli/rtweet: Collecting Twitter Data

Description

Create, add users, and destroy Twitter lists

Usage

post_list(users = NULL, name = NULL, description = NULL,
  private = FALSE, destroy = FALSE, list_id = NULL, slug = NULL,
  token = NULL)

Arguments

users	Character vectors of users to be added to list.
name	Name of new list to create.
description	Optional, description of list (single character string).
private	Logical indicating whether created list should be private. Defaults to false, meaning the list would be public. Not applicable if list already exists.
destroy	Logical indicating whether to delete a list. Either 'list_id' or 'slug' must be provided if 'destroy = TRUE'.
list_id	Optional, numeric ID of list.
slug	Optional, list slug.
token	OAuth token associated with user who owns [or will own] the list of interest. Token must have write permissions!

Value

Response object from HTTP request.

Examples

## Not run: 

## CNN twitter accounts
users <- c("cnn", "cnnbrk", "cnni", "cnnpolitics", "cnnmoney",
  "cnnnewsroom", "cnnspecreport", "CNNNewsource",
  "CNNNSdigital", "CNNTonight")

## create CNN-accounts list with 9 total users
(cnn_lst <- post_list(users,
  "cnn-accounts", description = "Official CNN accounts"))

## view list in browser
browseURL(sprintf("https://twitter.com/%s/lists/cnn-accounts",
  rtweet:::home_user()))

## search for more CNN users
cnn_users <- search_users("CNN", n = 200)

## filter and select more users to add to list
more_users <- cnn_users %>%
  subset(verified & !tolower(screen_name) %in% tolower(users)) %>%
  .$screen_name %>%
  grep("cnn", ., ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE)

## add more users to list- note: can only add up to 100 at a time
post_list(users = more_users, slug = "cnn-accounts")

## view updated list in browser (should be around 100 users)
browseURL(sprintf("https://twitter.com/%s/lists/cnn-accounts",
  rtweet:::home_user()))

## select users on list without "cnn" in their name field
drop_users <- cnn_users %>%
  subset(screen_name %in% more_users & !grepl("cnn", name, ignore.case = TRUE)) %>%
  .$screen_name

## drop these users from the cnn list
post_list(users = drop_users, slug = "cnn-accounts",
  destroy = TRUE)

## view updated list in browser (should be around 100 users)
browseURL(sprintf("https://twitter.com/%s/lists/cnn-accounts",
  rtweet:::home_user()))

## delete list entirely
post_list(slug = "cnn-accounts", destroy = TRUE)


## End(Not run)

nicolofcavalli/rtweet documentation built on Jan. 26, 2020, 1 a.m.