SocialMediaLab (version 0.23.2)

Collect: Collect data from social media for generating networks

Description

This function collects data from social media APIs, and structures the data into a data frame of class dataSource.*, ready for creating networks for further analysis. Collect is the second step of the Authenticate, Collect, Create workflow. This function is a convenient UI wrapper to the core CollectDataFrom* family of functions.

Usage

Collect(credential, ego = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

credential

credential object generated from Authenticate

ego

logical, collecting ego network data. Currently only support Instagram.

...

additional parameters for data collection (refer to CollectDataFrom* and CollectEgo* functions)

facebook: pageName, rangeFrom, rangeTo, verbose, n, writeToFile, dynamic

youtube: videoIDs, verbose, writeToFile, maxComments

twitter: searchTerm, numTweets, verbose, writeToFile, language

instagram: credential, tag, n, lat, lng, distance, folder, mindate, maxdate, verbose, sleep, writeToFile, waitForRateLimit

instagram with ego = TRUE: username, userid, verbose, degreeEgoNet, waitForRateLimit, getFollows

Value

A data.frame object of class dataSource.* that can be used with Create.

See Also

CollectDataFromFacebook, CollectDataFromInstagram, CollectDataFromYoutube, CollectDatFromTwitter, CollectEgoInstagram

Examples

## Not run: ------------------------------------
# require(magrittr)
# ## Instagram ego network example
# myAppID <- "123456789098765"
# myAppSecret <- "abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab"
# myUsernames <- c("senjohnmccain","obama")
# 
# Authenticate("instagram",
# appID = myAappId,
# appSecret = myAppSecret) %>% Collect(ego = TRUE,
# username = myUsernames) %>% Create
# 
# ## YouTube actor network example
# my_apiKeyYoutube <- "314159265358979qwerty"
# videoIDs <- c("W2GZFeYGU3s","mL27TAJGlWc")
# 
# Authenticate("youtube",
# apiKey = my_apiKeyYoutube) %>% Collect(videoIDs = videoIDs) %>% Create('actor')
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