page_vector_functions: Get data about pages from their titles

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Get data about pages from their titles

Description

get_latest_revision() returns metadata about the latest revision of each page.

get_page_html() returns the rendered html for each page.

get_page_summary() returns metadata about the latest revision, along with the page description and a summary extracted from the opening paragraph

get_page_related() returns summaries for 20 related pages for each passed page

get_page_talk() returns structured talk page content for each title. You must ensure to use the title for the Talk page itself, e.g. "Talk:Earth" rather than "Earth"

get_page_langlinks() returns interwiki links for each title

Usage

get_latest_revision(title, language = "en", failure_mode = "error")

get_page_html(title, language = "en", failure_mode = "error")

get_page_summary(title, language = "en", failure_mode = "error")

get_page_talk(title, language = "en", failure_mode = "error")

get_page_langlinks(title, language = "en", failure_mode = "error")

Arguments

title	A character vector of page titles.
language	A character vector of two-letter language codes, either of length 1 or the same length as title
failure_mode	Either "quiet" or "error." See get_rest_resource()

Value

A list, vector or tibble, the same length as title, with the desired data.

Examples

# Get language links for a known page on English Wikipedia
get_page_langlinks("Charles Harpur", failure_mode = "quiet")

# The functions are vectorised over title and language
# Find all articles about Joanna Baillie, and retrieve summary data for
# the first two.
baillie <- get_page_langlinks("Joanna Baillie") %>%
  dplyr::slice(1:2) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(get_page_summary(title = title, language = code, failure_mode = "quiet"))
baillie

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