get_url_tweets {academictwitteR}R Documentation

Get tweets containing URL 'r lifecycle::badge("deprecated")

Description

This function collects tweets containing a given url between specified date ranges. Tweet-level data is stored in a data/ path as a series of JSONs beginning "data_"; User-level data is stored as a series of JSONs beginning "users_". If a filename is supplied, this function will save the result as a RDS file, otherwise it will return the results as a dataframe.

Usage

get_url_tweets(
  query,
  start_tweets,
  end_tweets,
  bearer_token = get_bearer(),
  n = 100,
  file = NULL,
  data_path = NULL,
  bind_tweets = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

query

string, url

start_tweets

string, starting date

end_tweets

string, ending date

bearer_token

string, bearer token

n

integer, upper limit of tweets to be fetched

file

string, name of the resulting RDS file

data_path

string, if supplied, fetched data can be saved to the designated path as jsons

bind_tweets

If TRUE, tweets captured are bound into a data.frame for assignment

verbose

If FALSE, query progress messages are suppressed

...

arguments will be passed to build_query() function. See ?build_query() for further information.

Value

a data.frame

Examples

## Not run: 
bearer_token <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
tweets <- get_url_tweets("https://www.theguardian.com/",
"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z", "2020-04-04T00:00:00Z", bearer_token, data_path = "data/")

## End(Not run)

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