lunes, 2 de diciembre de 2013

Twitter unfollowers with R and Rook - Revisited

Some time ago I wrote a post called Twitter unfollowers with R and Rook where I used R and Twitter to get a list of the people that we follow...but that doesn't follow us back...

Right now...that post is obsolete as Twitter changed its API to API 1.1 which means that OAuth authentication must be used...

So...of course...we're going to use that for our new version of Twitter Unfollowers -;)

Getting Twitter Auth
library("ROAuth")
library("twitteR")

setwd("C:/Blag/R_Scripts/Important_Scripts")

options(RCurlOptions = list( capath = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package = "RCurl"), ssl.verifypeer = FALSE))

reqURL<-"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"

accessURL<-"http://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"

authURL<-"http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"

consumerKey<-"Your own Consumer Key"

consumerSecret<-"Your own Consumer Secret"

download.file(url="http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem", destfile="cacert.pem")

credentials<-OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,
                              consumerSecret=consumerSecret,
                              requestURL=reqURL,
                              accessURL=accessURL,
                              authURL=authURL)

credentials$handshake(cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package = "RCurl"))

save(credentials, file="credentials.RData")

What are we doing here is simply get Authorization from Twitter and save that information as an RData file that we can use later on. This script is needed to be executed only once...and will ask you to enter a PIN number to validate the connection...


After that...we're ready to go -;)

Twitter Unfollowers
require("Rook")
library("ROAuth")
library("twitteR")

setwd("C:/Blag/R_Scripts/Important_Scripts")
load("credentials.RData")
registerTwitterOAuth(credentials)
Get_Screen_Name<-function(p_userid){
  SomeUser<-getUser(p_userid,cainfo="cacert.pem")
  SomeUser<-SomeUser$screenName
  return(SomeUser)
}

newapp<-function(env){
  req<-Rook::Request$new(env)
  res<-Rook::Response$new()
  res$write('<form method="POST">\n')
  res$write('Enter your Twitter username: <input type="text" name="UserName">\n')
  res$write('<input type="submit" name="Get Bad People!">')
  res$write('</form>')
  
  People_Id<-""
  Bad_People<-c()
  Bad_Names<-c()
  j<-0  
  
  if (!is.null(req$POST())) {
    UserName = req$POST()[["UserName"]]
    
    User<-userFactory$new(screenName=UserName)
    followers<-User$getFollowerIDs(n=NULL,cainfo="cacert.pem")
    following<-User$getFriendIDs(n=NULL,cainfo="cacert.pem")

    for(i in 1:length(following)) {
      Match<-following[i] %in% followers
      if(Match == TRUE){
      }
      else{
        Bad_Person<-Get_Screen_Name(following[i])
        res$write(paste(' ',Bad_Person,sep=' '))
        res$write('</BR>')
      }
    }
}
  res$finish()
}

server = Rhttpd$new()
server$add(app = newapp, name = "Twitter_Rook")
server$start()
server$browse("Twitter_Rook")

Thanks to this...I was able to shrink the code from 85 lines of the previous version to only 51 lines of code...nice achievement if you ask me -;)

So...when we execute the code...we will have this...


Of course...I don't expect them all to follow me back as they are mostly companies...but for people...follow me back or get unfollowed -:P

Greetings,

Blag.

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