twitterreport (version 0.15.11)

tw_api_get_statuses_user_timeline: Gets status updates (tweets) from a given user

Description

Using the twitter API, gets the status updates of a given user (up to 3,200)

Usage

tw_api_get_statuses_user_timeline(screen_name = NULL, twitter_token, user_id = NULL, since_id = NULL, count = 100, max_id = NULL, exclude_replies = NULL, include_rts = NULL, quietly = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

screen_name

of the user

twitter_token

Token

user_id

The ID of the user for whom to return results for

since_id

Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID

count

Number of statuses to get

max_id

Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID

exclude_replies

This parameter will prevent replies from appearing in the returned timeline

include_rts

When set to false, the timeline will strip any native retweets

quietly

Whether or not to show the 'success' message

...

Additional arguments passed to GET

Value

A data.frame with tweets (if success), with the following columns:

• screen_name
• in_reply_to_screen_name
• user_id
• created_at
• id
• text
• source
• truncated
• retweet_count
• favourites_count
• favorited
• retweeted
• coordinates
• source_name

otherwise returns NULL.

Details

This function is designed to be applied to a large list of twitter accounts, see the example below. From twitterReturns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the user indicated by the screen_name or user_id parameters.

References

Twitter REST API (GET statuses/user_timeline) https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline

See Also

tw_extract

Other API functions: tw_api_get_followers_ids, tw_api_get_followers_list, tw_api_get_friends_ids, tw_api_get_search_tweets, tw_api_get_statuses_sample, tw_api_get_trends_place, tw_api_get_users_search, tw_api_get_users_show, tw_api_trends_available, tw_gen_token

Examples

## Not run: 
# # List of twitter accounts
# users <- c('MarsRovers', 'senatormenendez', 'sciencemagazine')
# 
# # Getting the twitts (first gen the token)
# key <- tw_gen_token('myapp','key', 'secret')
# tweets <- lapply(users, tw_api_get_statuses_user_timeline, twitter_token=key)
# 
# # Processing the data (and taking a look)
# tweets <- do.call(rbind, tweets)
# head(tweets)
# ## End(Not run)