getUser {instaR}

Get basic information about a user

Description

getUser retrieves public information about Instagram user

Usage

getUser(username, token, userid = NULL)

Arguments

username

String, screen name of user.

token

An OAuth token created with instaOAuth.

userid

Numeric ID of user.

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.
## Capturing information about @barackobama
 load("my_oauth")
 obama <- getUser( username="barackobama", token=my_oauth,)

## End(Not run)