Social networking websites provide public APIs to enable us to download their data. In this recipe, we cover the process of downloading data from Meetup.com using their public API. You can adapt this basic approach to download data from other websites. In this recipe, we get the data in JSON format and then import it to an R data frame.
Downloading social network data using public APIs
Getting ready
In this recipe, you will download data from Meetup.com. To gain access to the data, you need to be a member:
- If you do not have an account in http://www.meetup.com, sign up and become a member of a couple of groups.
- You need your own API key to download data through scripts. Get your own by clicking on the API Key link on http...