smappR (version 0.5)

getUsersBatch: Returns user data for a vector of Twitter user IDs or screen_names

Description

getUsersBatch connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns user objects (user information) for Twitter users, based on their screen names or user IDs

Usage

getUsersBatch(ids = NULL, screen_names = NULL, oauth_folder, include_entities = "false", verbose = TRUE, output = NULL)

Arguments

ids

ids of Twitter users

screen_names

user names of the Twitter users

oauth_folder

folder where OAuth tokens are stored. It can also be the name of a file that contains the token, or a csv file with the format: consumer_key, consumer_secret,access_token,access_token_secret.

include_entities

if "true", returned data will include most recent tweet

verbose

shows additional ouput about token usage in console

output

If not NULL, will write user data in raw JSON format to that file

Examples

## Not run: 
# ## Download user data for users "p_barbera" and "barackobama"
#  userdata <- getUsersBatch(screen_names=c("p_barbera", "BarackObama"),
#    oauth_folder="~/Dropbox/credentials")
# ## End(Not run)