Searches keywords on Twitter.

Source: R/get_tweets.R

It assumes that a valid token is already present in the working environment. For details, see https://rtweet.info/articles/auth.html

nwd_get_tweets(
  keywords = NULL,
  date = NULL,
  language = NULL,
  n_keywords = 10,
  n_tweets = 1000,
  tweet_type = "recent",
  wait = 10,
  store = TRUE
)

Arguments

keywords

A character vector or a data frame, with keywords in the first column. Defaults to NULL. If NULL, tries to import previously stored keywords for given language and date. If a data frame, it assumes that the first columns includes the keywords. If a character vector, it processes it directly.
date

Used to find keywords locally, if none are provided. Defaults to latest available. To systematically get data for the previous day, use `Sys.Date()-1`
n_keywords

An integer, defaults to NULL.
n_tweets

An integer. Number of tweets to request.
tweet_type

Passed to `rtweet`. Defaults to "recent". Other valid types include "mixed" and "popular".

Value

A data.frame (a tibble) with `n` number of rows and two columns, `words` and `n` for number of occurrences.

Examples