Accessing Academic Tack V2 API with R

[Nick_00]

Hello! New here. I’m trying to access my Academic API (which I believe is the V2 API?) to collect data from Twitter from 2010 to 2021. What package should I install in R to do so?

[jessicagarson]

Thanks for reaching out. I’ve typically accessed these endpoints in R using httr but if you want something more tailored for the Twitter API you may want to try this package

[IgorBrigadir]

I would recommend installing twarc and running it as a command line tool, and then importing the data into R for analysis instead:

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There’s an R script / library here: GitHub - cjbarrie/academictwitteR: Repo for academictwitteR package to query the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint. and a more bare bones gist Get tweets from the Academic Research product track. · GitHub However, I would recommend using twarc to crawl the data instead, and then import it into R for analysis. twarc is in python but you’ll use it as a command line tool, so you only need to install it. To get a dataframe in R, you can …

[Nick_00]

Thank you! This is quite helpful.