get_facebook:
Retrieves the number of Facebook likes, shares, and comments of a specific URL
Description
Takes a URL and returns a data frame with the original URL followed by the number of Facebook shares and comments. The function accepts the optional variable sleep.time (default=0) to avoid hitting API limits (if implemented). Use sleep.time to define the number of seconds the function will wait before proceeding to the next URL. If the URLs are shortened, you will have to first resolve them using the function get_url().
Usage
get_facebook(links, sleep.time = 0)
Arguments
links
URL to be tracked on Facebook
sleep.time
Number of seconds the function will wait before proceeding to the next URL (optional)
Value
Returns the original URL followed by the number of Facebook shares and comments.
References
Information about the Facebook API is available at