searchTweets: Search tweets

In tangaot/twitterapiR: An R Wrapper for the Twitter API

Search tweets

Description

This function will search for related tweets that match a specified string.

Usage

searchTweets(searchString, resultType = "mixed", count = 5)

Arguments

searchString	A search string of 100 characters maximum, including operators.
resultType	If not NULL, returns filtered tweets as per value. See details for allowed values.
count	If not NULL, restricts the maxumin number of tweets to return. Default is 5, up to a maximum of 100

Details

This function will return any authorized tweets that matches the search conditions. Authorized tweets are public tweets, as well as those protected tweets that are authenticated by registerTwitterOAuth, which users can use. Please note that Twitter's search service and, by extension, the Search API are not meant to be exhaustive.

The searchString is always required. It can contain hashtags in order to search specified tags in Twitter.

The resultType specifies the type of search results you want. The current default is "mixed." Valid values include:

mixed : includes both popular and real time results in the response

recent : returns only the most recent results in the response

popular : returns only the most popular results in the response

Value

A DataFrame that contains the following columns:

created_time	The date and time the tweet was created
user_name	The name of the user
user_screen_name	The screen name of the user
user_followers_count	The number of followers of the user
text	The text of the tweet
truncated	Indicates if the tweet is truncated
favorited	Indicates if the tweet is favorited
retweeted	Indicates if the tweet is retweeted
favorite_count	The number of times the tweet was favorited
retweet_count	The number of times the tweet was retweeted

Author(s)

Ao Tang

References

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets

Examples

##search for the hashtag #canada

# searchTweets('#canada', resultType = "popular", count = 15)

tangaot/twitterapiR documentation built on March 24, 2022, 12:40 p.m.