image_info: Fetch information about an image, given its image ID

In fozy81/NBN4R: National Biodiversity Network Atlas (UK and Ireland) Data and Resources in R

Description

Note that there is currently no web service that provides image information, and so we are scraping results from pages of the form https://images.nbnatlas.org/image/details?imageId=id. This web scraping may be fragile, and will be replaced by a web-service-based function when one becomes available.

Usage

image_info(id, image_number, verbose = nbn_config()$verbose)

Arguments

id	character: IDs of images (e.g. as returned by occurrences in the imageUrl column). Each ID will be of a format something like "84654e14-dc35-4486-9e7c-40eb2f8d3faa"
image_number	character or numeric: ID numbers of images (e.g. as returned by NBN's image search at https://images.nbnatlas.org/. Each image_number will be of a format something like 122218480
verbose	logical: show additional progress information? [default is set by nbn_config()]

Value

A data.frame with one row per id, and at least the columns imageIdentifier and imageURL

See Also

nbn_config occurrences

Examples

## Not run: 
## Using IDs returned from occurrences() function

image_info(id = c("eeadbb65-5509-4e55-9b3d-bd9bfb99f76c",
  "2f61274d-c397-4d24-ac9a-43fac921e43f"))
  
## Using image numbers found on images.nbnatlas.org

image_info(c(image_number=5881156))

## End(Not run)

fozy81/NBN4R documentation built on May 19, 2019, 8:22 a.m.