mocktwitter

🐧🐦 Generate HTML pages for Twitter statuses.

Installation

You can install the current version of mocktwitter from Github with:

## install from github
devtools::install_github("mkearney/mocktwitter")

mocktwitter_status()

Use mocktwitter_status() with a status URL, status ID, or tweets data returned by {rtweet} to create a mock-up of a Twitter status HTML page:

## (1) URL to twitter status data byrealDonaldTrump
mocktwitter_status("https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1010900865602019329")

## (2) mockup an HTML twitter page for a readDonaldTrump status
mocktwitter_status("1010900865602019329")

## (3) twitter status data from rtweet for a realDonaldTrump tweet
rdt <- rtweet::lookup_statuses("1010900865602019329")

## override with custom text
rdt$text <- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

## mock-up an HTML twitter page
mocktwitter_status(rdt, file = "tools/readme/ex.html")

In Rstudio, a preview will be displayed in the viewer pane.

mocktwitter_timeline() (dev in progress)

Use mocktwitter_timeline() with a user URL, screen name, user ID, or timeline data returned by {rtweet} to create a mock-up of a Twitter status HTML page:

## (1) URL to a twitter timeline
mocktwitter_timeline("https://twitter.com/kearneymw")

## (2) screen name or user ID of twitter account
mocktwitter_timeline("kearneymw", file = "tools/readme/ex2.html")