The goal of einfach is to make collecting tweets through the Academic Research Product Track V2 API as simple as possible. This package is inspired by Facepager (Jünger & Keyling, 2019). But the author of this package doesn’t have the talent to clone it accurately, and thus einfach is not Facepager’s accurate clone, honestly.
You can install the development version of einfach from Github with:
devtools::install_github("chainsawriot/einfach")-
You need to have access to the Academic Research Product Track V2 API. Please refer to the academictwitteR’s vignette for more information.
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Please setup your bearer token according to the instructions in
?get_bearer().
You can do that either by inserting this line in either your .Renviron
(You can edit your .Renviron using usethis::edit_r_environ().)
TWITTER_BEARER="BABABABABABA"
Advance users might know that you can also insert this line in your
~/*rc (e.g. ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc) to get the same result.
export TWITTER_BEARER="BABABABABABABA"- Launch einfach
require(einfach)
einfach()- Use the GUI and enjoy!
If you want to know how to build a query, please read this guide from Twitter.
You can dump the collected data as either Serialized R Object (RDS), Comma-seperated data (CSV), Excel (xlsx), Stata (dta) or SPSS (sav).
The format is the so-called “tidy” format like the one below
require(tibble)
#> Loading required package: tibble
example
#> # A tibble: 857 x 31
#> tweet_id user_username text lang source author_id created_at
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 136537201… RutgersCommIn… "RT @NatComm… en Twitter… 52517689 2021-02-26…
#> 2 136536853… NatComm "NCA invites… en Twitter… 17880989 2021-02-26…
#> 3 136533671… ElizabethAHin… "Always happ… en Twitter… 116490404… 2021-02-26…
#> 4 136519974… quinnli725 "RT @judith_… en Twitter… 781327782… 2021-02-26…
#> 5 136512063… lizbmarquis "RT @disable… en Twitter… 982724506… 2021-02-26…
#> 6 136507685… jlinabary "RT @disable… en Twitter… 16538343 2021-02-25…
#> 7 136506714… egerphd "RT @disable… en Twitter… 102731352… 2021-02-25…
#> 8 136506497… MrSulaimanKhan "RT @disable… en Twitter… 213644552 2021-02-25…
#> 9 136506486… wunpini_fm "RT @disable… en Twitter… 460255655 2021-02-25…
#> 10 136506462… disabledphd "Hey #CommTw… en Twitter… 118480786… 2021-02-25…
#> # … with 847 more rows, and 24 more variables: conversation_id <chr>,
#> # possibly_sensitive <lgl>, in_reply_to_user_id <chr>, user_location <chr>,
#> # user_description <chr>, user_created_at <chr>,
#> # user_profile_image_url <chr>, user_name <chr>, user_verified <lgl>,
#> # user_url <chr>, user_protected <lgl>, user_pinned_tweet_id <chr>,
#> # retweet_count <int>, like_count <int>, quote_count <int>,
#> # user_tweet_count <int>, user_list_count <int>, user_followers_count <int>,
#> # user_following_count <int>, sourcetweet_type <chr>, sourcetweet_id <chr>,
#> # sourcetweet_text <chr>, sourcetweet_lang <chr>, sourcetweet_author_id <chr>With the following columns
colnames(example)
#> [1] "tweet_id" "user_username" "text"
#> [4] "lang" "source" "author_id"
#> [7] "created_at" "conversation_id" "possibly_sensitive"
#> [10] "in_reply_to_user_id" "user_location" "user_description"
#> [13] "user_created_at" "user_profile_image_url" "user_name"
#> [16] "user_verified" "user_url" "user_protected"
#> [19] "user_pinned_tweet_id" "retweet_count" "like_count"
#> [22] "quote_count" "user_tweet_count" "user_list_count"
#> [25] "user_followers_count" "user_following_count" "sourcetweet_type"
#> [28] "sourcetweet_id" "sourcetweet_text" "sourcetweet_lang"
#> [31] "sourcetweet_author_id"Contributions in the form of feedback, comments, code, and bug report are welcome.
- Fork the source code, modify, and issue a pull request.
- Issues, bug reports: File a Github issue.
- Github is not your thing? Contact Chung-hong Chan by e-mail, post, or other methods listed on this page.
Please note that the einfach project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.