scrape_hits: Scrapes hits from specified databases

In elizagrames/litsearchr: Automated Search Term Selection and Search Strategy for Systematic Reviews

Description

Provides a wrapper function to scrape hits from databases for which litsearchr can recognize formats.

Usage

scrape_hits(
  search_terms = NULL,
  URL = NULL,
  database = c("oatd", "ndltd", "openthesis"),
  verbose = TRUE,
  writefile = FALSE,
  directory = "./"
)

Arguments

search_terms	a list of character strings with grouped search terms.
URL	the URL from searching in OATD, NDLTD, or OpenThesis
database	a character with the database to scrape (either "ndltd", "openthesis", or "oatd").
verbose	if TRUE, prints which page of hits it has finished
writefile	if TRUE, writes results to a .csv file in the working directory
directory	the directory to save results to if writefile=TRUE

Value

a database of hits (if yes is selected from the menu prompt, the hits will also be saved to your working directory)

elizagrames/litsearchr documentation built on April 14, 2021, 3:42 p.m.