rtweet (version 0.3.0)

get_timeline: get_timeline

Description

Returns timeline of tweets from a specified Twitter user.

Usage

get_timeline(user, n = 200, max_id = NULL, parse = TRUE, token = NULL,
  ...)

Arguments

user

Screen name or user id of target user.

n

Numeric, number of tweets to return.

max_id

Character, status_id from which returned tweets should be older than

parse

Logical, indicating whether to return parsed (data.frames) or nested list (fromJSON) object. By default, parse = TRUE saves users from the time [and frustrations] associated with disentangling the Twitter API return objects.

token

OAuth token. By default token = NULL fetches a non-exhausted token from an environment variable. Find instructions on how to create tokens and setup an environment variable in the tokens vignette (in r, send ?tokens to console).

…

Futher arguments passed on to make_url. All named arguments that do not match the above arguments (i.e., count, type, etc.) will be built into the request. To return only English language tweets, for example, use lang = "en". Or, to exclude retweets, use include_rts = FALSE. For more options see Twitter's API documentation.

Value

List consisting of two data frames. One with the tweets data for a specified user and the second is a single row for the user provided.

See Also

https://dev.twitter.com/overview/documentation

Other tweets: get_favorites, lookup_statuses, search_tweets, stream_tweets, tweets_data

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# get 2000 from Donald Trump's account
djt <- get_timeline("realDonaldTrump", n = 2000)

# data frame where each observation (row) is a different tweet
djt

# users data for realDonaldTrump is also retrieved.
# access it via users_data() users_data(hrc)
users_data(djt)
# }

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