Add ability to query more versions of the Twitter API

kurtawirth / botscan

R tool for scanning Twitter for bot activity on a conversation level.

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Add ability to query more versions of the Twitter API #25

Closed ryantmoore closed 5 years ago

ryantmoore commented 5 years ago

Currently, botscan() allows users to specify whether to query the streaming API (the default) or the search API.

Are there other versions of the API we want to permit users to query?

What are these versions?
Can querying them be implemented via extant functions in library(rtweet)?
Should we change our stream/search argument to a single argument called api = "stream" rather than the current logical?

ryantmoore commented 5 years ago

We agree that it makes sense to implement the third bullet above, a single argument api, defaulting to "stream". I'll add this to botscan(), document it, and recompile the package.

kurtawirth commented 5 years ago

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ryantmoore commented 5 years ago

I've created a single argument api with default value "stream" and built as version 2.0.1. @kurtawirth, can you install and do a few quick runs to check that you can successfully

[x] omit the api argument, and get streamed results
[x] specify api = "stream" and get streamed results
[x] specify api = "search" and get search results
[x] specify any other value for api and get an informative error message

kurtawirth commented 5 years ago

Ryan, you're a star. All worked perfectly. Closing issue and will reopen when and if other versions of the API are to be included.