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API docs: https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/api/twitter.html

This is the API documentation for accessing the Twitter Stream endpoint of Delphi’s epidemiological data. Sourced from Healthtweets

Usage

pvt_twitter(
  auth,
  locations,
  ...,
  time_type = c("day", "week"),
  time_values = "*",
  fetch_args = fetch_args_list()
)

Arguments

auth

string. Your restricted access key (not the same as API key).

locations

character. List of locations to fetch.

...

not used for values, forces later arguments to bind by name

time_type

string. The temporal resolution of the data (either "day" or "week", depending on signal).

time_values

timeset. Dates or epiweeks to fetch. Supports epirange() and defaults to all ("*") dates.

fetch_args

fetch_args. Additional arguments to pass to fetch(). See fetch_args_list() for details.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # curl::has_internet() && Sys.getenv("SECRET_API_AUTH_TWITTER") != ""

pvt_twitter(
  auth = Sys.getenv("SECRET_API_AUTH_TWITTER"),
  locations = "CA",
  time_type = "week",
  time_values = epirange(201501, 202001)
)
}