Collect.search.mastodon: Collect post data from mastodon search

In vosonlab/vosonSML: Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

Collect post data from mastodon search

Description

This function collects posts based on search terms and structures the data into a dataframe with the class names "datasource" and "mastodon".

Usage

## S3 method for class 'search.mastodon'
Collect(
  credential,
  endpoint,
  hashtag = NULL,
  instance = NULL,
  local = FALSE,
  numPosts = 100,
  anonymous = TRUE,
  retryOnRateLimit = TRUE,
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

credential	A credential object generated from Authenticate with class name "mastodon".
endpoint	API endpoint.
hashtag	Character string. Specifies a mastodon query to search on e.g #hashtag. Set to NULL for unfiltered public posts. Default is NULL.
instance	Character string. Server to collect posts from. Default is NULL.
local	Logical. Search the local server or global timeline. FALSE.
numPosts	Numeric. Specifies how many tweets to be collected. Default is 100.
anonymous	Logical. Collect public posts without authenticating. Default is TRUE.
retryOnRateLimit	Logical. When the API rate-limit is reached should the collection wait and resume when it resets. Default is TRUE.
writeToFile	Logical. Write collected data to file. Default is FALSE.
verbose	Logical. Output additional information. Default is FALSE.
...	Arguments passed on to rtoot::get_timeline_hashtag only_media logical, Show only statuses with media attached? min_id character, Return results immediately newer than this id

Value

A tibble object with class names "datasource" and "mastodon".

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