R/nmfsscraper.R

In jacob-ogre/nmfsscraper: Scrape PDFs From National Marine Fisheries Service Website

#' Scrape ESA documents from the NMFS website
#'
#' @details The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), along with the U.S.
#' Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), is responsible for implementing the
#' Endangered Species Act (ESA). There is a huge amount of information about
#' ESA-listed species and about how the ESA is implemented in tens of thousands
#' of PDFs that the Services host, but the Services don't make those documents
#' available from a single, central download location. This package is a (set
#' of) scrapers to search for PDFs on the NMFS website,
#' \url{http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov}, and download them locally to facilitate
#' analysis of the embedded information, e.g., using Natural Language Processing
#' (NLP).
#'
#' @note \code{nmfsscraper} also includes a glossary of terms regularly used by
#' NMFS, from a document that can be easily scraped from their website.
#' The source site, \url{http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st4/documents/FishGlossary.pdf},
#' required some manual adjustments, and is included so users can easily access
#' the definitions but do not have to extract the glossary themselves.
#'
#' @docType package
#' @name nmfsscraper
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