stream_tweets function

Collect a live stream of Twitter data

Streams public statuses to a file via one of the following four methods:

1. Sampling a small random sample of all publicly available tweets
2. Filtering via a search-like query (up to 400 keywords)
3. Tracking via vector of user ids (up to 5000 user_ids)
4. Location via geo coordinates (1-360 degree location boxes)

Learn more in vignette("stream", package = "rtweet")

stream_tweets(
  q = "",
  timeout = 30,
  parse = TRUE,
  token = NULL,
  file_name = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE,
  append = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

• q: Query used to select and customize streaming collection method. There are four possible methods:

  1. The default, q = "", returns a small random sample of all publicly available Twitter statuses.
  2. To filter by keyword, provide a comma separated character string with the desired phrase(s) and keyword(s).
  3. Track users by providing a comma separated list of user IDs or screen names.
  4. Use four latitude/longitude bounding box points to stream by geo location. This must be provided via a vector of length 4, e.g., c(-125, 26, -65, 49).

• timeout: Integer specifying number of seconds to stream tweets for. Stream indefinitely with timeout = Inf.

  The stream can be interrupted at any time, and file_name will still be valid file.

• parse: Use FALSE to opt-out of parsing the tweets.

• token: Use this to override authentication for a single API call. In many cases you are better off changing the default for all calls. See auth_as() for details.

• file_name: Character with name of file. If not specified, will write to a temporary file stream_tweets*.json.

• verbose: If TRUE, display a progress bar.

• append: If TRUE, will append to the end of file_name; if FALSE, will overwrite.

• ...: Other arguments passed in to query parameters.

Returns

A tibble with one row per tweet

Details

References

They were removed from the website.

The webpages describing how it used to work were removed.

See Also

filtered_stream(), rtweet-deprecated