getFollows {instaR}

Get the list of users a user follows.

Description

getFollows retrieves the list of users that a given user follows, as well as basic information about all of them.

Usage

getFollows(username, token, userid = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

username

String, screen name of user.

token

An OAuth token created with instaOAuth.

userid

Numeric ID of user.

verbose

If TRUE (default), outputs details about progress of function on the console.

Details

IMPORTANT: After June 1st, 2016 only applications that have passed permission review by Instagram will be allowed to access data for users other than the authenticated user. See https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/ for more information.

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## See examples for instaOAuth to know how token was created.
## Downloading list of users that @senjohnmccain follows
 load("my_oauth")
 mccain <- getFollows( username="senjohnmccain", token=my_oauth )

## End(Not run)