get_account

Query the instance for a specific user

An implementation of calls designed to collect and organize Mastodon data via its Application Program Interfaces (API), which can be found at the following URL: <https://docs.joinmastodon.org/>.

David Schoch

rtoot

Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data

Chung-hong Chan

Johannes Gruber

get_account function

<dl><dt>id</dt>
<dd>character, Local ID of a user (this is not the username)</dd>
<dt>instance</dt>
<dd>character, the server name of the instance where the status is located. If <code>NULL</code>, the same instance used to obtain the token is used.</dd>
<dt>token</dt>
<dd>user bearer token (read from file by default)</dd>
<dt>anonymous</dt>
<dd>some API calls do not need a token. Setting anonymous to TRUE allows to make an anonymous call if possible.</dd>
<dt>parse</dt>
<dd>logical, if <code>TRUE</code>, the default, returns a tibble. Use <code>FALSE</code> to return the "raw" list corresponding to the JSON returned from the Mastodon API.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Query the instance for a specific user — get_account

<dl>

<dt>id</dt>
<dd>character, Local ID of a user (this is not the username)</dd>


<dt>instance</dt>
<dd>character, the server name of the instance where the status is located. If <code>NULL</code>, the same instance used to obtain the token is used.</dd>


<dt>token</dt>
<dd>user bearer token (read from file by default)</dd>


<dt>anonymous</dt>
<dd>some API calls do not need a token. Setting anonymous to TRUE allows to make an anonymous call if possible.</dd>


<dt>parse</dt>
<dd>logical, if <code>TRUE</code>, the default, returns a tibble. Use <code>FALSE</code> to return the "raw" list corresponding to the JSON returned from the Mastodon API.</dd>

</dl>

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get_account: Query the instance for a specific user

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