I am trying to stream data from Twitter, by using StreamR and this guide https://github.com/pablobarbera/streamR
It worked recently, but now I get this error when I try to stream any data;
library(ROAuth)
library(streamR)
my_oauth <- list(consumer_key = "...",
consumer_secret = "...",
access_token="...",
access_token_secret = "...")
getUsers(screen_names="LSEnews", oauth = my_oauth)
#Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) :
#Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to api.twitter.com:443
When I try to stream tweets the connection closes after 0 second
filterStream(file.name="trump-tweets.json", track="trump", timeout=120, oauth=my_oauth)
#Capturing tweets...
#Connection to Twitter stream was closed after 0 seconds with up to 0 tweets #downloaded.
I have re-generated my costumerkeys and access tokens on the Twitter developer site and also created a new app. I have also tried to update the ROAuth and streamR -package. However, when I try to update streamR from github, I get this error (I have installed the package before without any problems);
library(devtools)
#Loading required package: usethis
devtools::install_github("pablobarbera/streamR/streamR")
#Error in rethrow_call(c_processx_exec, command, c(command, args), stdin, :
# Incorrect number of arguments (16), expecting 14 for 'processx_exec'
Which led me to this answer that I might need to update the processx package
https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues/2077
Which I have updated by
install.packages("processx")
But it did not solve the problem, I still get the same error when I try to update the StreamR package from Github. I have also tried to install the streamR-package through CRAN;
install.packages("streamR")
install.packages("ROAuth")
But it did not solve my primary problem about streaming tweets.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
I was able to successfully run the code as per below (proving that it is indeed an issue with your setup and nothing has changed in the API or package itself).
A couple notes:
getUsers; I suspect that function is from the CRAN versionsessionInfo(); perhaps if you ensure you have the same package versions and R version as I do you will be able to run successfully or at least lead you in the directionlibrary(streamR)
#> Loading required package: RCurl
#> Loading required package: bitops
#> Loading required package: rjson
#> Loading required package: ndjson
my_oauth <- list(consumer_key = "MY_CONSUMER_KEY_HERE",
consumer_secret = "MY_CONSUMER_SECRET_HERE",
access_token="MY_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE",
access_token_secret = "MY_ACCESS_SECRET_HERE")
filterStream("tweets.json", track = c("Obama", "Biden"), timeout = 120,
oauth = my_oauth)
#> Capturing tweets...
#> Connection to Twitter stream was closed after 120 seconds with up to 1146 tweets downloaded.
getUsers(screen_names="LSEnews", oauth = my_oauth) #not a function I see
#> Error in getUsers(screen_names = "LSEnews", oauth = my_oauth): could not find function "getUsers"
# List all functions in this package
ls("package:streamR")
#> [1] "createOAuthToken" "filterStream" "parseTweets"
#> [4] "readTweets" "sampleStream" "userStream"
filterStream(file.name="trump-tweets.json", track="trump", timeout=120, oauth=my_oauth)
#> Capturing tweets...
#> Connection to Twitter stream was closed after 120 seconds with up to 5187 tweets downloaded.
sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
#> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
#> Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15
#>
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
#> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
#>
#> locale:
#> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
#>
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
#>
#> other attached packages:
#> [1] streamR_0.4.5 ndjson_0.7.0 rjson_0.2.20 RCurl_1.95-4.12
#> [5] bitops_1.0-6
#>
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#> [1] Rcpp_1.0.2 knitr_1.25 magrittr_1.5
#> [4] tidyselect_0.2.5 R6_2.4.0 rlang_0.4.0
#> [7] ROAuth_0.9.6 stringr_1.4.0 highr_0.8
#> [10] dplyr_0.8.3 tools_3.6.1 data.table_1.12.2
#> [13] xfun_0.9 htmltools_0.3.6 yaml_2.2.0
#> [16] digest_0.6.21 assertthat_0.2.1 tibble_2.1.3
#> [19] crayon_1.3.4 dtplyr_0.0.3 purrr_0.3.2
#> [22] glue_1.3.1 evaluate_0.14 rmarkdown_1.15
#> [25] stringi_1.4.3 compiler_3.6.1 pillar_1.4.2
#> [28] pkgconfig_2.0.3
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