scrape_reviews: Scrape book reviews from Goodreads

In Goodreader: Scrape and Analyze 'Goodreads' Book Data

Scrape book reviews from Goodreads

Description

This function scrapes book reviews from Goodreads based on provided book IDs.

Usage

scrape_reviews(
  book_ids_path,
  num_reviews = 30,
  use_parallel = FALSE,
  num_cores = 4
)

Arguments

book_ids_path	A character string specifying the path to a file containing book IDs.
num_reviews	An integer specifying the number of reviews to scrape per book. Default is 30.
use_parallel	A logical value indicating whether to use parallel processing. Default is FALSE.
num_cores	An integer specifying the number of cores to use for parallel processing. Default is 4.

Value

A data frame containing scraped review information.

Examples

# Create a temporary file with sample book IDs
temp_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".txt")
writeLines(c("1420", "2767052", "10210"), temp_file)
# Run the function (with a small number of reviews to keep the example quick)
reviews <- scrape_reviews(temp_file, num_reviews = 5, use_parallel = FALSE)
print(head(reviews))
# Clean up: remove the temporary file
file.remove(temp_file)

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