Collect.thread.mastodon: Collect posts data from mastodon threads

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

Collect posts data from mastodon threads

Description

Collects public posts for one or more specified mastodon conversation threads and structures the data into a dataframe with the class names "datasource" and "mastodon".

Usage

## S3 method for class 'thread.mastodon'
Collect(
  credential,
  endpoint,
  threadUrls,
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

credential	A credential object generated from Authenticate with class name "mastodon".
endpoint	API endpoint.
threadUrls	Character vector. Mastodon thread post urls to collect data from.
writeToFile	Logical. Write collected data to file. Default is FALSE.
verbose	Logical. Output additional information about the data collection. Default is TRUE.
...	Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

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

Examples

## Not run: 
# post urls to collect threads from
threadUrls <- c("https://mastodon.social/@xxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx")

mastodonData <- Authenticate("mastodon") |>
  Collect(threadUrls = threadUrls, writeToFile = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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