user_by_username() R function from [rtweet]

Search users by username

Looks up users by their username.


user_by_username(
  username,
  expansions = NULL,
  fields = NULL,
  ...,
  token = NULL,
  parse = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

username: A user name string or up to 100.
expansions: Set NULL to not use any expansion, set NA to get all expansions, or provide a vector with the expansions you want (create it with set_expansions()).
fields: Set NULL to not use any field, get all allowed fields with NA, provide a list with the fields you want (create it with set_fields()).
...: Other arguments passed to the API.
token: These endpoints only accept a bearer token (can be created via rtweet_app()). In most cases you are better of changing the default for all calls via auth_as().
parse: If TRUE, the default, returns a tidy data frame. Use FALSE

to return the "raw" list corresponding to the JSON returned from the Twitter API.
verbose: A logical value to provide more information about paginated queries.


if (FALSE) {
  user_by_username("rOpenSci")
  user_by_username(c("Bioconductor", "R_Contributors"))
}