lookup_users
From rtweet v0.6.0
by Michael W. Kearney
Get Twitter users data for given users (user IDs or screen names).
Returns data on up to 90,000 Twitter users. To return data on more than 90,000 users, code must be written to iterate through user IDs whilst avoiding rate limits, which reset every 15 minutes.
Usage
lookup_users(users, parse = TRUE, token = NULL)Arguments
- users
User id or screen name of target user.
- parse
Logical, indicating whether or not to parse return object into data frame(s).
- token
OAuth token. By default
token = NULLfetches 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?tokensto console).
Value
A tibble of users data.
See Also
Other users: as_screenname,
lists_subscribers,
search_users,
tweets_with_users, users_data
Examples
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# }
# NOT RUN {
## select one or more twitter users to lookup
users <- c(
"potus", "hillaryclinton", "realdonaldtrump",
"fivethirtyeight", "cnn", "espn", "twitter"
)
## get users data
usr_df <- lookup_users(users)
## view users data
usr_df
## view tweet data for these users via tweets_data()
tweets_data(usr_df)
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }
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