get_facebook: Retrieves the number of Facebook likes, shares, and comments...

In toledobastos/SocialMediaMineR: A Social Media Search and Analytic Tool

Description

Takes a URL and returns a data frame with the original URL followed by the number of Facebook shares and comments. The function accepts the optional variable sleep.time (default=0) to avoid hitting API limits (if implemented). Use sleep.time to define the number of seconds the function will wait before proceeding to the next URL. If the URLs are shortened, you will have to first resolve them using the function get_url().

Usage

get_facebook(links, sleep.time = 0)

Arguments

links	URL to be tracked on Facebook
sleep.time	Number of seconds the function will wait before proceeding to the next URL (optional)

Value

Returns the original URL followed by the number of Facebook shares and comments.

Author(s)

Marco Bastos

References

Information about the Facebook API is available at <https://developers.facebook.com/>

Examples

get_facebook("http://www.google.com/")

toledobastos/SocialMediaMineR documentation built on May 31, 2019, 5:14 p.m.