Search videos

This is the version of tt_search that explicitly uses the unofficial API. Use tt_search_api for the Research API version.

Usage

tt_search_hidden(
  query,
  solve_captchas = FALSE,
  timeout = 5L,
  scroll = "5m",
  return_urls = FALSE,
  save_video = FALSE,
  verbose = interactive(),
  headless = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

query

query as one string.

solve_captchas

open browser to solve appearing captchas manually.

timeout

time (in seconds) to wait between scrolling and solving captchas.

scroll

how long to keep scrolling before returning results. Can be a numeric value of seconds or a string with seconds, minutes, hours or days (see examples).

return_urls

return video URLs instead of downloading the vidoes.

save_video

passed to tt_videos_hidden if return_urls = FALSE.

verbose

should the function print status updates to the screen?

headless

open the browser to show the scrolling.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to the tt_videos_hidden function.

Value

a data.frame containing metadata searched posts or character vector of URLs.

Details

The function will wait between scraping search results. To get more than 6 videos, you need to provide cookies of a logged in account. For more details see the unofficial-api vignette: vignette("unofficial-api", package = "traktok")

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# search videos with hastag #rstats for default time
tt_search_hidden("#rstats")

# search videos for 10 seconds
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = "10s")
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = 10)

# search videos for 10 minutes
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = "10m")
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = "10mins")

# search videos for 10 hours
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = "10h")
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = "10hours")

# search videos until all are found
tt_search_hidden("#rstats", scroll = Inf)
# the functions runs until the end of all search results, which can take a
# long time. You can cancel the search and retrieve all collected results
# with last_query though!
last_query()
} # }