Get the text in the image description of a tweet
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Problem
I am trying to get the text in the image description of a tweet ext_alt_text but {rtweet} always returns NA.
Expected behavior
The code in the example below should return a string with the word "sort" and a number, like "sort 893".
Reproduce the problem
library(rtweet)
# parsing the tweet data
last_tweet_parsed <- rtweet::get_timeline(user = 'esquinadobrasil',
n = 1,
parse = T
)
# getting the media_alt_text
entities <- last_tweet_parsed$entities
entities[[1]]$media$ext_alt_text
#>[1] NA
rtweet version
## copy/paste output
packageVersion("rtweet")
[1] ‘1.0.2’Session info
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sessionInfo()
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22000)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base
other attached packages:
[1] gdalio_0.0.1.9014 remotes_2.4.2 rtweet_1.0.2 terra_1.6-47 sf_1.0-9
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.9 pillar_1.8.1 compiler_4.1.1 prettyunits_1.1.1
[5] class_7.3-19 tools_4.1.1 progress_1.2.2 bit_4.0.5
[9] tibble_3.1.8 jsonlite_1.8.4 memoise_2.0.1 lifecycle_1.0.3
[13] pkgconfig_2.0.3 rlang_1.0.6 DBI_1.1.3 cli_3.5.0
[17] curl_4.3.3 fastmap_1.1.0 e1071_1.7-12 s2_1.1.1
[21] vapour_0.9.2 withr_2.5.0 httr_1.4.4 vctrs_0.5.1
[25] askpass_1.1 hms_1.1.2 bit64_4.0.5 classInt_0.4-8
[29] grid_4.1.1 glue_1.6.2 R6_2.5.1 fansi_1.0.3
[33] magrittr_2.0.3 codetools_0.2-18 ellipsis_0.3.2 units_0.8-1
[37] mime_0.12 renv_0.16.0 utf8_1.2.2 KernSmooth_2.23-20
[41] proxy_0.4-27 wk_0.7.1 openssl_2.0.5 cachem_1.0.6
[45] crayon_1.5.2 I'll double check if there is something wrong with the parsing. Is there something in the response when parse = FALSE?
Thank you for looking into this and thanks for a great package, @llrs!
When using parse = FALSE, the output bings no info either. The variable is not enven there.
last_tweet <- rtweet::get_timeline(user = 'esquinadobrasil',
n= 1,
parse = F
)
last_tweet[[1]][[1]]$entities$media
> [[1]]
> id id_str indices media_url
> 1 1.61501e+18 1615009514297729024 174, 197 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmmqmLiXoAAdEmw.jpg
> media_url_https url
> 1 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmmqmLiXoAAdEmw.jpg https://t.co/z1YDyTJArx
> display_url
> 1 pic.twitter.com/z1YDyTJArx
> expanded_url type sizes.thumb.w
> 1 https://twitter.com/esquinadobrasil/status/1615009611186069504/photo/1 photo 150
> sizes.thumb.h sizes.thumb.resize sizes.small.w sizes.small.h sizes.small.resize
> 1 150 crop 549 680 fit
> sizes.medium.w sizes.medium.h sizes.medium.resize sizes.large.w sizes.large.h
> 1 970 1200 fit 1655 2048
> sizes.large.resize
> 1 fit
Mmh, it seems that they are doing some changes in the API that affect the API v1. Perhaps it doesn't affect the API v2 (As far as I know, all development in the backend affects the public/all the apps).
I'll check and see if I need to redouble the efforts to provide support for the new API. Thanks for your kind words.
Thanks so much! for the record, I had opened a question on SO.
Ok, as expected I see that the API v2 works well...
In devel version 1.1.0.9006 or in next release it will be possible to do this:
gt <- tweet_get("1615009611186069504",
expansions = 'attachments.media_keys',
fields = set_fields(media = "alt_text", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL),
parse = FALSE)
gt[[1]]$includes$media[[1]]$alt_text
## [1] "sort 893"Closing now (but still working in how to parse the data to make it easier to access it)
thanks