Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication
Hey,
I am not sure, that this is the right list for questions that are 'only
mildly' related to package developement. Your question is more about
API/webscraping etc. .
Maybe someone can point to a better place to post questions like this?.
... that beeing said ...
If I understand your problem right, I would suggest to try out the
twitteR package [1] which already has authentication and data retrieval
build in.
If you do want to do it on your own I would suggest building on top of
httr [2] for authentication and HTTP-communication to access
information from the official Twitter API [3]. Make sure to have a look
at the demo provided on httr's Github repo [4]. Also the httr vignette
on how to write API wrapper packages might be useful and last and very
least I build a kind of minimal package for reading tweets and tweeting
ot be found on my Github [5] which might also be of use because it only
implements reading tweets of specific user.
Good luck, Peter
[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html
[2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/index.html
[3] https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public
[4] https://github.com/hadley/httr/blob/master/demo/oauth1-twitter.r
[5] https://github.com/petermeissner/twitterlight
Am Do, 19. Nov, 2015 um 5:33 schrieb Tushar Sadhu
:
> Hello and greetings
>
> I have been doing Twitter Data Analysis following a few blogs which
> requires me to register as a developer and enter a PIN everytime I
> want to
> start reading tweets. But now I have made a basic package which does
> all
> the hectic authentication, but the PIN from an authorized app is still
> required.
> (specifically after twitCred is correctly defined and this step :
> twitCred$handshake(cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem",
> package =
> "RCurl")) )
> Though it works and reduces the steps, it still has to go to the URL
> and
> enter the PIN manually
>
> So my questions are two :
>
> 1. If I go ahead with the current method of reading tweets by logging
> from
> my account, how do I automate the process of entering the PIN when
> the code
> runs inside the package?
> 2. What is the standard method of gathering tweets without any
> authentication at all. How is it done professionally without using
> anyone's
> account and PIN.
>
> This is my first question here and I am not sure if I am following the
> right protocols or am asking silly questions. In either case I am
> sorry.
>
> Please help!
> Also Thankyou in advance :)
>
> Regards
> Tushar Sadhu
>
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Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication
Tushar,
I've created a Twitter App, and then saved the credentials for that app as
an object that is part of an R package, using the four pieces of *api key,
api secret, token key, token secret* that you get when you create a new
app. I've posted a tutorial here:
http://rmflight.github.io/posts/2014/06/r_job_notifications_twitter.html
The only thing I've found is that with new versions of some packages I may
have to regenerate the object and save it with the package.
Note that this method *should only be used with personal packages*, and the
credential object should never go into version control!
Alternatively, I think there may be a way to read in the four pieces from a
text file to generate the Oauth token object that can then be used for the
session. This might be a better method for a distributable package, and I'm
actually thinking of switching to this method myself, but have not tried it
yet.
I hope this helps.
-Robert
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:55 AM Tushar Sadhu
wrote:
> Hello and greetings
>
> I have been doing Twitter Data Analysis following a few blogs which
> requires me to register as a developer and enter a PIN everytime I want to
> start reading tweets. But now I have made a basic package which does all
> the hectic authentication, but the PIN from an authorized app is still
> required.
> (specifically after twitCred is correctly defined and this step :
> twitCred$handshake(cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package =
> "RCurl")) )
> Though it works and reduces the steps, it still has to go to the URL and
> enter the PIN manually
>
> So my questions are two :
>
> 1. If I go ahead with the current method of reading tweets by logging from
> my account, how do I automate the process of entering the PIN when the code
> runs inside the package?
> 2. What is the standard method of gathering tweets without any
> authentication at all. How is it done professionally without using anyone's
> account and PIN.
>
> This is my first question here and I am not sure if I am following the
> right protocols or am asking silly questions. In either case I am sorry.
>
> Please help!
> Also Thankyou in advance :)
>
> Regards
> Tushar Sadhu
>
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