brandwatchR

An API wrapper package for the Brandwatch API.

If you're like me and you just want to get your hands on lots of lovely mention data, you do that by:

• Authenticating with bwr_auth()
• Working out the project id you need with bwr_projects_get()
• Working out the id of the query you want results for with bwr_queries_get().

From here, you can retrieve mentions data using bwr_get_mentions(), which takes the project ID and query ID as arguments.

Install

devtools::install_github("Phippsy/brandwatchR")

or install from CRAN, version 0.3.0

install.packages('brandwatchR')

Authenticate

Only username and password are mandatory. You can optionally specify refresh = TRUE to force the function to obtain a new token from the API. Otherwise it will read a cached local file if available. You can also optionally specify cache = FALSE if you prefer not to have your token cached locally. In this case, your token will be stored in a local environment variable and available for the current R session only.

bwr_auth(un = "your@username.com",
         pw = "your_password",
         refresh = TRUE,
         cache = TRUE)

Get project info

my_projects <- bwr_projects_get()
head(my_projects)

This will display a data frame of project information including project ID, description, creation date and more.

Read the Brandwatch documentation for more info

Get queries for a project

Once you have a project ID, you can find out all the available queries in your environment. Do this using the bwr_query_get() function:

# We arbitrarily pull the first available project ID
my_project <- bwr_projects_get()$id[1]

# Get list of queries for this project ID
my_query <- bwr_query_get(project_id = my_project)

This will return a data frame showing you the ID, name, created date and similar metadata for the queries in the specified project.

Get mentions for a query

Finally, the fun stuff - we can now request all mentions for a given query, using a specified date range. We achieve that using the bwr_mentions_get() function.

my_mentions <- bwr_mentions_get(
  project_id = my_project,
  query_id = my_query,
  date_range = c("2018-01-01", "2018-02-01"))

This will return a data frame containing the mentions for your specified query. Brandwatch returns a ton of fields in the API response, so it's likely that you'll want to slim down the resulting data frame by using dplyr's select() function or similar.

You can find information about the mention field definitions within Brandwatch's API documentation.

All functions currently available

Authentication

• bwr_auth() authenticate

Projects

• bwr_projects_get()- get a dataframe of projects

Queries / mentions

• bwr_query_get() - get a dataframe of queries for a project
• bwr_query_check() - check the syntax of a query
• bwr_query_create() - upload a new query
• bwr_query_delete() - delete a specified query
• bwr_mentions_get() - get the mentions for a specified query
• bwr_mentions_total() - get the total number of mentions for a specified query or query group.
• bwr_mentions_topics() - get the matching topics & topic metadata for a specified query or query group.
• bwr_mentions_topsites() - get the top authors for a specified query or query group.
• bwr_mentions_toptweeters() - get the top tweeters for a specified query or query group.

Query filters

• bwr_filters_get() - Get a data frame of all parameters which can be used to filter your query
• bwr_metrics_get() - Get a data frame of all metrics which have limited accepted values.

Query Groups

• bwr_querygrp_get() - get the query groups for a specified project
• bwr_querygrp_delete() - delete a specfied query group

Tags

• bwr_tag_get() - get the tags for a specified project
• bwr_tag_create() - create a new tag for a specified project
• bwr_tag_delete() - delete a tag for a specified project

Categories

• bwr_cat_get() - get the categories for a specified project
• bwr_cat_create() - create a new category for a specified project

Rules

• bwr_rule_get() - get a data frame of all rules available within the specified project.
• bwr_rule_delete() - delete a rule for a specified project and rule id

Charts

• bwr_mentions_chart() - get a data frame of chart-ready statistics for a specified query or query group.