[Air-L] Twitter data related to a link

[Greenhalgh, Spencer P.]

Hi Devayani,

Sina’s right—any collection tool that is based on a search term will accept a URL just as easily as a hashtag. I’ve successfully used TAGS (https://tags.hawksey.info) to collect the sharing of a URL over time, and that rtweet code should work beautifully for a one-time search.

Spencer

> On Feb 14, 2020, at 05:00, Sina Furkan Özdemir <sina.ozdemir at ntnu.no> wrote:
> 
> Hi Devayani,
> 
> I think it is possible to do it with python and/or R. I use R with rtweet For my Twitter work. I haven't tracked a link myself but I suspect you can do it with the following code in R.
> 
> #---------------
> library(rtweet)
> 
> api_token = rtweet::create_token(app = "app_name",consumer_key = "consumer_key",consumer_secret = "consumer_secret_key",access_token = "access_token_key",access_secret = "access_secret_key",set_renv = F)
> 
> link = "your_link"
> 
> link_tweets = search_tweets(q = link,n =  18000,type = "recent", include_rts = TRUE,retryonratelimit = T, token = api_token)
> 
> write_as_csv(x = link_tweets,file_name = "link_tweets.csv",prepend_ids = T,na = "",fileEncoding = "UTF-8")
> #------------------
> 
> 
> You need to create a developer account to connect to API. It's free and it is not a big hassle. 
> 
> Hope it helps ??
> 
> Best,
> Sina
> 
> 
> 
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>> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 9:04 AM
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>> Subject: [Air-L] Twitter data related to a link
>> 
>> Hello list,
>> 
>> I have been trying to figure out how to get data about spread of a link on
>> Twitter.
>> I see a lot of tools that can provide data on hashtags, users, search terms but
>> haven't figured out how to search for links on twitter.
>> Any help is appreciated.
>> 
>> Devayani
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