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Wilcar
Wilcar

Reputation: 2513

twitteR package: how to get users informations from an id's followers list

Using twitteR package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf

Connecting to twitter API:

library (twitteR)
consumer_key <- "xxxx"
consumer_secret <- "xxxx"
access_token <- "xxxx"
access_secret <- "xxxx"
setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret)

Getting a collection of 10 relevant tweets matching #nantes query:

nantes_tag <- searchTwitter("#nantes", n =10)
nantes_tag <- twListToDF(nantes_tag) # converting to df

Extracting id's vector from my data.frame object:

user_id <- nantes_tag$id

A short output:

user_id <- c("800684281337147392", 
             "800684281295212544",
             "800684084687228928",
             " 800684024406609923", 
             "800683967884050432")

How can I get user's information for each id using getuser() function and store them in a data.frame object?

I tried without success:

users <- lookupUsers(user_id)

Can I make a loop over user_id with get_user()?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3990

Answers (1)

Ronak Shah
Ronak Shah

Reputation: 388982

Instead of using the Id's , I would suggest you to use the screen names of the users

usernames <- nantes_tag$screenName

and then pass character vector of these screen names to lookupUsers and then wrap it around twListToDF to get the required output in dataframe format. 

temp_df <- twListToDF(lookupUsers(usernames))

Upvotes: 3

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