Extract links from tweets and expands shortened urls

Source: R/extract_urls_from_tweets.R

Extract links from tweets and expands shortened urls

nwd_extract_urls_from_tweets(
  tweets = NULL,
  language = NULL,
  date = NULL,
  expand_url = TRUE,
  n_char = 30,
  n_retry = 3
)

Arguments

tweets

A data frame of tweets, as created by `rtweet`. If not given, it processes tweets available in `tweets` subfolder.
n_char

An integer, defaults to 30. Number of characters in the url: only urls shorter than n_char will be expanded, others will be kept as they are.
n_retry

An integer, defaults to 3. Number of times it tries to expand urls if first attempt fails. Set to 0 for attempting only once.

Value

Nothing, used for its side effects, i.e. stores expanded urls in `tweet_links` subfolder.

Examples