twitter data to df

twitter_data_to_df.R

library(jsonlite)
library(brio)

# where is the archive directory
dir_path <- "~/Downloads/twitter-archive/data"

# file in /data with the tweets
filename <- "tweets.js"

# get full file path
js_file_path <- file.path(dir_path, filename)

f <- brio::read_file(js_file_path)
data <- jsonlite::fromJSON(substr(f, 27, nchar(f)), flatten = TRUE)
data <- as.data.frame(data)

# check out tweets
head(data)