gutenberg_download: Download one or more works using a Project Gutenberg ID

In dgrtwo/gutenbergr: Download and Process Public Domain Works from Project Gutenberg

Download one or more works using a Project Gutenberg ID

Description

Download one or more works by their Project Gutenberg IDs into a data frame with one row per line per work. This can be used to download a single work of interest or multiple at a time. You can look up the Gutenberg IDs of a work using gutenberg_works() or the gutenberg_metadata dataset.

Usage

gutenberg_download(
  gutenberg_id,
  mirror = NULL,
  strip = TRUE,
  meta_fields = character(),
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

gutenberg_id	A vector of Project Gutenberg IDs, or a data frame containing a gutenberg_id column, such as from the results of gutenberg_works().
mirror	A mirror URL to retrieve the books from. By default uses the mirror from gutenberg_get_mirror().
strip	Whether to strip suspected headers and footers using gutenberg_strip().
meta_fields	Additional fields describing each book, such as title and author, to add from gutenberg_metadata.
verbose	Whether to show messages about the Project Gutenberg mirror that was chosen

Value

A two column tbl_df (see tibble::tibble()) with one row for each line of the text or texts, with columns

gutenberg_id

Integer column with the Project Gutenberg ID of each text

text

A character vector of lines of text

Examples

  # download The Count of Monte Cristo
  gutenberg_download(1184)

  # download two books: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
  books <- gutenberg_download(c(768, 1260), meta_fields = "title")
  books
  dplyr::count(books, title)

  # download all books from Jane Austen
  austen <- gutenberg_works(author == "Austen, Jane") |>
    gutenberg_download(meta_fields = "title")
  austen
  dplyr::count(austen, title)

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