control_rate_limit: Control requests in line with the rate limit

In seanchrismurphy/twtools: Utility functions for dealing with tweet data from Twitter

Description

This utility function helps to write loops to download Twitter data while respecting rate limits. If you specify a query type, it will pause and wait until the next 15-minute window before continuing. So it can be inserted in loops before a call to, say, get_friends, and will ensure you aren't rate limited. The limit parameter optionally lets you set the threshold for pausing to a level above zero, for specific use cases. The token parameter allows you to set a limit for a specific token rather than a set, which is occasionally useful.

Usage

control_rate_limit(query = NULL, limit = NULL, token = get_tokens())

Arguments

query	Required. Used to specify a query such as 'application/ratestatus'.
limit	Allows you to set the limit at which the function will pause. Defaults to zero.
token	This allows you to specify which token to check on, if you only want to check on one. Default is to check all

seanchrismurphy/twtools documentation built on May 29, 2019, 4:27 p.m.