In hrbrmstr/carbondater: Estimate the Age of Web Resources

carbondater

Estimate the Age of Web Resources

Description

Methods are provided to read 'URL' metadata and scan web archives/use web archive 'APIs' to determine the approxate age of the resource.

What's Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• carbondate: Carbon date a URL/URI
• get_date_from_url: Locate and retrieve publication date from a URL
• get_earliest_mementos: Retrieve the earliest mementos for a URL/URI
• get_earliest_pubdate: Retrieve the earliest "pubdate" for a URL
• get_last_modified: Retrieve the last-modified header

TODO

• [X] A carbondate() function to wrap up everything
• [ ] More error checking
• [ ] More resources to check
• [ ] More documentation
• [ ] Tests

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/carbondater")

options(width=120)

Usage

library(carbondater)
library(tidyverse)

# current verison
packageVersion("carbondater")

Carbon data a few URIs

(x <- carbondate("https://rud.is/b/2013/12/27/points-polygons-and-power-outages/"))

glimpse(x)

(x <- carbondate("http://www.cs.odu.edu"))

glimpse(x)

(x <- carbondate("http://example.org/"))

glimpse(x)

(x <- carbondate("http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/28/living/ways-to-look-better-is/index.html"))

glimpse(x)

hrbrmstr/carbondater documentation built on May 10, 2019, 8:06 a.m.