How to get badge info using the stackr library for the API?

Question

I would like to use the Stack Exchange API with a specific user id to get the text of a user's badges.

# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/stackr")
library(stackr)
stack_users(712603)

But that only gives the total number of every kind of badge. How can I take the text from each one? Example:

gold silver bronze
r     r      ggplot2

I don't only want the total number of badges but also what the badges are.

Can you clarify what you are asking? And please fix your spelling throughout. I can't tell if you want to get a single user and see what badges they have, or find all users with a specific badge. — Max von Hippel, Feb 16 '18 at 20:43
@MaxvonHippel thank you. As I mention at the start I want for a single user. For example user has 6 gold badges which could be r, python etc. — Pozmanski, Feb 16 '18 at 20:47
@BrockAdams thank you I tried it but it gives only some of bronze badges — Pozmanski, Feb 17 '18 at 07:28
You probably aren't paging through the results. Consult the docs for that library. — Brock Adams, Feb 17 '18 at 08:07
@BrockAdams thank you. Unfortunately I can't find an official document and using in r console `?stack_users` I can't see any paging through the results. — Pozmanski, Feb 17 '18 at 10:29
@BrockAdams thank you it was very helpful for me. Please could you help with one more thing. I would like to take all questions of a user with their body. I tried this `textques <- stack_users(712603, "questions", body = "true", num_pages=10, pagesize=100)` but it hasn't the body. Any idea if it is possible to take also the body? — Pozmanski, Feb 17 '18 at 12:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '18 at 20:36

With that library, use:

stack_users(712603, "badges")

to get badges with descriptions and use something like:

stack_users(712603, "badges", num_pages=10, pagesize=100)

to get the user's first^† 1000 badges.

^† The default ordering is by rank, not date, so you would get bronze badges first, then silver, then gold, with that library.

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