README.md

In dfalbel/mercury: R Connection to the Mercury Web Parser API

mercury

Make any web page make sense.

With just one API request, Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more — free from any clutter. It’s reliable, easy-to-use and free.

This small R package wraps some httr code to make it easier to get answers from the Mercury Web Parser API.

Installation

You can install mercury from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dfalbel/mercury")

To use the mercury package you need to set the MERCURY_KEY environment variable. Just create your API key here by logging in and the run to set the environent variable.

Sys.setenv(MERCURY_KEY = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

With all set you can go to the example below.

Example

The mercury function will return a tibble with all information you can get with the Mercury Web Parser API.

mercury("https://trackchanges.postlight.com/building-awesome-cms-f034344d8ed")

It also accepts a list of urls as input.

dfalbel/mercury documentation built on May 16, 2019, 10:05 a.m.