pediasearch: Search for Wikipedia articles

In chainsawriot/pediarr: R interface to Wikipedia API

Description

Retrieve the titles of Wikipedia items based on search string

Usage

pediasearch(searchstring, lang = "en", extract = FALSE, limit = 20,
  namespace = 0)

Arguments

searchstring	A character string of search string
lang	Language of Wikipedia to query, default = 'en'
extract	Boolean, to retrieve the extracts or not, only available when namespace = 0
limit	integer, number of items to return
namespace	integer, namespace to search for, common namespace: 0 = articles, 14 = categories

Value

vector of wikipedia titles or vector of extracts

Examples

pediasearch("ukulele")
pediasearch("ukulele", extract = TRUE, limit = 1)
pediasearch("Python")
pediasearch("Python", namespace = 14) # search for categories
pediasearch("Dynamically typed programming languages", namespace = 14, limit = 1)

chainsawriot/pediarr documentation built on May 13, 2019, 3:11 p.m.