getFollowers function

Get the list of users this user is followed by.

Get the list of users this user is followed by.

getFollowers retrieves the list of users that follow a given user, as well as basic information about all of them.

getFollowers(username, token, userid = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

  • username: String, screen name of user.
  • token: An OAuth token created with instaOAuth.
  • userid: Numeric ID of user.
  • verbose: If TRUE (default), outputs details about progress of function on the console.

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.

Examples

## Not run: ## See examples for instaOAuth to know how token was created. ## Downloading list of followers of @senjohnmccain load("my_oauth") mccain <- getFollowers( username="senjohnmccain", token=my_oauth ) ## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera pablo.barbera@nyu.edu

  • Maintainer: Pablo Barbera
  • License: GPL-2
  • Last published: 2016-08-17