getUser: Functions to manage Twitter users

Description

These functions allow you interact with information about a Twitter user - retrieving their base information, list of friends, list of followers, and an up to date timeline.

Usage

getUser(user, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
userFriends(user, n=100, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
userFollowers(user, n=100, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)

Arguments

user

The Twitter user to detail, can be character or an user object.

The maximum number of objects to retrieve

session

A session object from initSession

...

Optional arguments to be passed to getURL

Value

The getUser function returns an object of class user.
The functions userFriends and userFollowers return lists of class user objects.

Details

These functions will only return fully formed objects if the authenticated user is allowed to see the requested user. If that person has a private account and has not allowed you to see them, you will not be able to extract that information.

By twiddling the n parameter you can retrieve more than 100 objects, as available (setting it to 500 will still only retrieve 300 if 300 is all that matches the query). Note that there are pagination limits.

Examples

Run this code

sess <- initSession('myuser', 'mypass')
      tuser <- getUser('twitter', sess)
      tfriends <- userFriends(tuser, sess)
      tfollowers <- userFollowers(tuser, sess)
      ttimeline <- userTimeline(tuser, sess)