getUser function

Get basic information about a user

Get basic information about a user

getUser retrieves public information about Instagram user

getUser(username, token, userid = NULL)

Arguments

  • username: String, screen name of user.
  • token: An OAuth token created with instaOAuth.
  • userid: Numeric ID of user.

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. ## Capturing information about @barackobama load("my_oauth") obama <- getUser( username="barackobama", 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