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Fetch Wordle results from Twitter with {rtweet} and put them in a little dataframe
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# I tweeted about this: | |
# https://twitter.com/mattdray/status/1481071849891057668?s=20 | |
# Then I blogged about it: | |
# https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/14/wordle/ | |
# Function to extract Wordle results from tweet data | |
twirdle <- function(tweets) { | |
g <- "\U1F7E9" | |
o <- "\U1F7E7" | |
y <- "\U1F7E8" | |
blu <- "\U1F7E6" | |
bla <- "\U2B1B" | |
w <- "\U2B1C" | |
rx_all <- paste(g, o, y, blu, bla, w, sep = "|") | |
rx_right <- paste(g, o, sep = "|") | |
rx_place <- paste(y, blu, sep = "|") | |
rx_wrong <- paste(bla, w, sep = "|") | |
rx_color <- paste(o, blu, sep = "|") | |
tweets$meta <- regexpr( | |
"Wordle \\d{1,} [\\d{1}|X]/\\d{1}", | |
tweets$text, | |
perl = TRUE | |
) | |
tweets$meta <- setNames( | |
tweets$meta, | |
ifelse(tweets$meta < 0, FALSE, TRUE) | |
) | |
tweets$meta <- ifelse( | |
names(tweets$meta), | |
regmatches(tweets$text, tweets$meta), | |
NA_character_ | |
) | |
tweets <- tweets[!is.na(tweets$meta), ] | |
tweets$edition <- as.numeric( | |
regmatches( | |
tweets$meta, | |
regexpr("\\d{1,}", tweets$meta) | |
) | |
) | |
tweets$attempts <- regmatches( | |
tweets$meta, | |
regexpr("[\\d{1}|X](?=/)", tweets$meta, perl = TRUE) | |
) | |
tweets$attempts <- ifelse( | |
tweets$attempts == "X", | |
NA_character_, | |
tweets$attempts | |
) | |
tweets$attempts <- as.numeric(tweets$attempts) | |
tweets$allowed <- as.numeric( | |
regmatches( | |
tweets$meta, | |
regexpr("(?<=/)\\d{1}", tweets$meta, perl = TRUE) | |
) | |
) | |
tweets$grid <- regmatches( | |
tweets$text, | |
gregexpr(rx_all, tweets$text) | |
) | |
tweets$grid <- lapply( | |
tweets$grid, | |
function(x) paste(x, collapse = "") | |
) | |
tweets$colorblind <- ifelse( | |
grepl(rx_color, tweets$grid), TRUE, FALSE | |
) | |
tweets$mode <- ifelse( | |
grepl(bla, tweets$grid), "dark", | |
ifelse(grepl(w, tweets$grid), "light", "unknown") | |
) | |
tweets$grid <- gsub(rx_right, "G", tweets$grid) | |
tweets$grid <- gsub(rx_place, "Y", tweets$grid) | |
tweets$grid <- gsub(rx_wrong, "-", tweets$grid) | |
tweets[, c("edition", "attempts", "allowed", "mode", | |
"colorblind", "grid", "status_id")] | |
} | |
# Fetch some tweets | |
tweets <- rtweet::search_tweets( | |
q = "Wordle \U2B1B OR \U2B1C", | |
n = 10, # return 10 tweets | |
include_rts = FALSE # no retweets | |
) | |
# Extract data | |
twirdle(tweets) |
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