I want to download all followers of a Twitter user with the function get_followers from the rtweet package.
With an older version of the rtweet package, this worked without any problems, although it took a long time.
Since I updated the package (current version is 1.0.2), I only get the first 75,000 followers, even though I set the retryonratelimit-option to TRUE.
The function downloads the first 75,000 followers, then waits 15 minutes and then ends the download process without any message.
Here you can see my example code:
library(rtweet)
# I have authenticated myself with auth_setup_default()
df_follower <- get_followers("CDU",n = 800000,retryonratelimit = TRUE)
> df_follower
# A tibble: 75,000 × 2
from_id to_id
<chr> <chr>
Can someone explain me where the problem is and how I can download all followers?
Many thanks in advance!
Sorry, this is a bug fixed in the devel branch of the package (I think you asked in the issue tracker https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues/732). In the next release this will be fixed.
In the rtweet version 1.1 this was fixed.