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I wanted to make a list of my disease ecology followers and followees on twitter, so...
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library(twitteR) | |
library(rlist) | |
library(pipeR) | |
library(stringi) | |
# Authenticate with twitter | |
# consumer/access keys and secrets for the twitter API must be defined elsewhere | |
setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret) | |
# Get all my followers and followees | |
nr = getUser('noamross') | |
followers = nr$getFollowers() | |
followees = nr$getFriends() | |
tweeps = list.merge(followers, followees) | |
# search across all user descriptions and extract names and descriptions | |
term = "(disease|parasite|outbreak|spillover|infect|pathology)" | |
disease_tweeps = tweeps %>>% | |
list.filter(stri_detect_regex(.$description, term, case_insensitive=TRUE)) %>>% | |
list.map(list(name = .$screenName, description = .$description)) %>>% | |
list.stack() | |
#making lists isn't part of the twitteR packages functionality | |
#instead I re-authenticate and POST to the twitter API directly | |
library(httr) | |
app <- oauth_app("twitter", key = consumer_key, secret = consumer_secret) | |
sig = sign_oauth1.0(app, access_token, access_secret) | |
list_response = POST("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/create.json?name=Disease&mode=public&description=disease%20ecologists", sig) | |
add_list_members_url = paste0('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/members/create_all.json?screen_name=', | |
paste(disease_tweeps$name, collapse=","), | |
"&list_id=", content(list_response)$id) | |
members_response = POST(add_list_members_url, sig) | |
## See the list at https://twitter.com/noamross/lists/disease/members |
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