Create argument to allow for specific n tweets

[kurtawirth]

Argument should stream until n reaches a given number.

[ryantmoore]

Suppose the user sets timeout = 30. Is the idea to interrupt the stream after 20 seconds if, say, 1000 tweets have already been pulled? If so, might it make sense to reuse the n_tweets argument (doing different things with it, depending on the API being used)?

[kurtawirth]

Correct! Agreed on both fronts.

[ryantmoore]

The only argument to rtweet::stream_tweets() that might enable this appears to be ..., which allows other unspecified parameters to be added to the URL for the query. The only Twitter API parameter that might facilitate this appears to be count. It appears (from digging into rtweet:::.search_tweets) that, in fact, this is the parameter that make_url() is using. However, it's not clear to me whether we have "elevated access". We should try adding an argument count = n_tweets to stream_tweets() in botscan() line 62, and see if this is possible for us, or might be for users with "elevated access".

For a description of count, see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime/guides/basic-stream-parameters.html

[kurtawirth]

Have confirmed that count = will not work due to a lack of "elevated access". Also unsure as to whether this function would achieve what we hope to achieve here.

[ryantmoore]

Without access to the count parameter, I propose we table and close this idea.

[kurtawirth]

Agreed.