Web crawler does not require authentication in this version of vosonSML.
# S3 method for web
Authenticate(socialmedia, ...)Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate, set to "web".
Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.
A credential object containing a $auth = NULL value and social media type descriptor
$socialmedia set to "web". Object has the class names "credential" and "web".
Even though the web crawler does not require authentication in this version of vosonSML the Authenticate
function must still be called to set the socialmedia identifier. This is used to route to the appropriate
social media Collect function.
if (FALSE) {
# web authentication
webAuth <- Authenticate("web")
}