Rtinder: Unofficial API Tinder for R

R client for accessing Tinder’s API.

I could not find any scientific project for which to use Tinder data, I would love to be informed about the idea that comes to you.

Since the tinder API is not publicly open. Without the github repository https://github.com/fbessez/Tinder , Rtinder would not have been possible.

Features

• Provides an interface to the tinder API.

• Allows swiping, getting matches, sending messages, among other functions.

Installation

Rtinder is only available as a GitHub package. To install it run the following from an R console:

if (!require("remotes")) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_github("jcrodriguez1989/Rtinder")

Usage

From an R console type:

library("Rtinder")

# When first using Rtinder, we should configure the account.
# It will save (by default) the config file in ~/.tinderAccount.R
# It will save just the access token, not the mail nor the password.
# Wont send info to any server besides Facebook.
# You can see configAccount, it is open source ;)
configAccount("MY_FB_REGISTERED_MAIL", "MY_FB_PASSWORD")

# or by SMS with
configAccountSms(MY_PHONE_NUM) # configAccountSms(543516881918)

# Now we can check if it can connect to tinder.
# login() must be executed each time we load Rtinder library.
invisible(login())

## [1] "You have been successfully authorized!"

# And finally we can start swiping!
mySwipes <- getSwipes()
# mySwipes is a list
fstSwipe <- mySwipes[[1]]
# fstSwipe is a list
names(fstSwipe)

##  [1] "type"         "user"         "instagram"    "facebook"    
##  [5] "spotify"      "distance_mi"  "content_hash" "s_number"    
##  [9] "teaser"       "teasers"

names(fstSwipe$user)

## [1] "_id"        "bio"        "birth_date" "name"       "photos"    
## [6] "gender"     "jobs"       "schools"