get_full_thread_links: Get entire main section's links
In fellennert/flashbackscrapR: scraping flashback.org

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/full_thread_links.R

Returns a file that allows for scraping the entire section, folder names mimic the section structure

get_full_thread_links(
  suffix,
  path,
  cut_off = "2000-01-01",
  delay = TRUE,
  export_links = FALSE,
  export_meta = TRUE,
  output_folder = ""
)

`suffix`	The section's suffix
`cut_off`	A character string containing the date at which the latest post in the thread should had been posted on. Has to be in the format `YYYY-MM-DD`. Defaults to `"2000-01-01"`.
`delay`	flashback.org's robots.txt-file asks for putting a five second delay between each iteration. You can deliberately ignore this by setting `delay = FALSE`. Note that THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED!
`export_links`	If set to `TRUE`, a CSV file containing the links is exported
`export_meta`	If set to `TRUE`, a CSV file containing data on the scrape is exported
`output_folder`	A character string determining the folder the CSV files containing the links and the meta data should be stored in.
`folder_name`	A character vector with a folder name the scraped files are supposed to be stored in

A tibble with the name of the sub(sub) section's suffix sub_suffix, the name of the folder the scraped thread should be stored at folder_name, the thread links thread_links, and the prospective file name file_name