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Gustav Skov
Gustav Skov

Reputation: 55

Is it possible to set specific dates for the get_timelines function in rtweet?

I am currently using the rtweet package to conduct API calls on twitter.

It would seem that the easiest way to pull the tweets i want, is by using get_timelines(). At the moment I have set n = 100 just to try an pull som tweets.

get_timelines(c("politician1", "politician2", "politician3"), n = 100)

However, my question is: is it possible to use a command along with the get_timelines in order to retrieve tweets from a specified period in time? I want to retrieve tweets between Oktober 20th and November 20th 2020.

Or would it be better just to filter the dataframe by the dates I want?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1014

Answers (1)

Gustav Skov
Gustav Skov

Reputation: 55

Okay, so i looked at https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues/312 for answers to this particular question. Because the API doesn't allow for "since" and "until" parameters, you can use the id from tweets that are at the same dates as one would want.

So to set a "since" date of 2019-02-01, simply select a tweet from 31 Jan 2019 e.g. "1090887065456148481" To set an "until" date of 2019-02-04, similarly choose a tweet from 5 Feb 2019 e.g. "1092889267674599424"

result <- get_timeline("screenname", n = 100,  parse = TRUE, since_id = "1090887065456148481", max_id = "1092889267674599424", type = "recent") %>%
dplyr::filter(created_at > "2019-01-31" & created_at <="2019-02-04")

It should be noted, that I am not to claim credit for this answer, I am simply reporting the answer from the link above.

  • Hope this helps someone struggling with the same issue.

Upvotes: 2

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