Users can create their personal access token in two different ways. Each method is outlined below.
2. Access token/secret method
- Click the tab labeled
Keys and Access Tokens
to retrieve your keys.
- In the
Keys and Access Tokens
tab, locate and copy/paste values Consumer Key
(aka “API Key”) and Consumer Secret
(aka “API Secret”) into an R script.
- In the
Keys and Access Tokens
tab, scroll down to Token Actions
and click Create my access token
.
- That should generate two access keys
Access Token
and Access Token Secret
- Locate and copy/paste
Access Token
and Access Token Secret
(fake keys shown in image above) into an R script file
- Once the keys are read into R, pass the objects to
create_token()
, and store the output as twitter_token
.
- The
create_token()
function should automatically save your token as an environment variable for you. To make sure it worked, compare the created token object to the object returned by get_token()
That’s it!