getTimeline: Returns up to 3,200 recent tweets from a given user

Description

getTimeline connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns up to 3,200 recent tweets sent by these user. If the total number of tweets sent by this user is less than 3,200 tweets, it will return all tweets.

Usage

getTimeline(filename, n = 3200, oauth_folder = "~/credentials", screen_name = NULL, id = NULL, since_id = NULL, trim_user = "true", sleep = 0.5, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

filename

file where tweets will be stored (in json format)

number of tweets to be downloaded (maximum is 3,200)

oauth_folder

folder where OAuth tokens are stored.

screen_name

user name of the Twitter user for which his/her tweets will be downloaded

id of Twitter user for which his/her tweets will be downloaded (Use either of these two arguments)

since_id

id of the oldest tweet to be downloaded. Useful if, for example, we're only interested in getting tweets sent after a certain date.

trim_user

if "true", downloaded tweets will include user object embedded. If "false", only tweet information will be downloaded.

sleep

numeric, number of seconds between API calls. Higher number will increase reliability of API calls; lower number will increase speed.

verbose

If TRUE, provides additional output in console about API rate limits

Examples

Run this code

## Not run: 
# ## Download recent tweets by user "p_barbera"
#  friends <- getTimeline(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth_folder="oauth")
# ## End(Not run)

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