twitter.rmd

https://mkearney.github.io/nicar_tworkshop/#12

Install

Install {rtweet} CRAN.
install.packages("rtweet")
Or install the development version from Github.
devtools::install_github("mkearney/rtweet")
Load {rtweet}
library(rtweet)

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are sets of protocols that govern interactions between sites and users.

APIs are similar to web browsers but with different purpose:

Web browsers render content
Web APIs manage and organize data
For public APIs, many sites only allow authorized users

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Github, etc.

Twitter APIs

To connect to Twitter's APIs, users need a consumer key and consumer secret, which you can get by creating a Twitter app.

View the built-in vignette auth for instructions on obtaining and storing user access tokens.*

## view rtweet's authorization vignette
vignette("auth", package = "rtweet")
Or look up the vignette online: rtweet.info/articles/auth.html

* For a while, rtweet users were not required to create their own Twitter applications. That recently changed, but hopefully it's resolved soon.


3. Complete the fields (important: Callback URL must be exact)

Name: {{initials}}_twitter_app
Description: {{something about analyzing Twitter data}}
Website: https://twitter.com/{{you_screen_name}}
Callback URL: http://127.0.0.1:1410


4. Store name of app as app_name in R script

## name of twitter app
app_name <- "mwk_twitter_app"
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