Collect posts data from mastodon threads — Collect.thread.mastodon • vosonSML

Collects public posts for one or more specified mastodon conversation threads and structures the data into a dataframe with the class names "datasource" and "mastodon".

# S3 method for thread.mastodon
Collect(
  credential,
  endpoint,
  threadUrls,
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

credential: A credential object generated from Authenticate with class name "mastodon".
endpoint: API endpoint.
threadUrls: Character vector. Mastodon thread post urls to collect data from.
writeToFile: Logical. Write collected data to file. Default is FALSE.
verbose: Logical. Output additional information about the data collection. Default is TRUE.
...: Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

A tibble object with class names "datasource" and "mastodon".

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# post urls to collect threads from
threadUrls <- c("https://mastodon.social/@xxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx")

mastodonData <- Authenticate("mastodon") |>
  Collect(threadUrls = threadUrls, writeToFile = TRUE)
}