Authenticate: Create a credential object to access social media APIs

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

Create a credential object to access social media APIs

Description

Authenticate creates a credential object that enables R to make authenticated calls to social media APIs. A credential object is a S3 object containing authentication related information such as an access token or key, and a class name identifying the social media that grants authentication. Authenticate is the first step of the Authenticate, Collect and Create workflow.

Refer to Authenticate.twitter, Authenticate.youtube and Authenticate.reddit, Authenticate.web for parameters and usage.

Usage

Authenticate(socialmedia, ...)

Arguments

socialmedia	Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate with. Supported social media are "twitter", "youtube", "reddit" and "web".
...	Optional parameters to pass to functions providied by supporting R packages that are used for social media API access.

vosonSML documentation built on Aug. 16, 2022, 5:14 p.m.