wikisource_book: Download a book from Wikisource
In lgnbhl/wikisourcer: Download Public Domain Works from Wikisource

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/wikisource_book.R

Download a book using the url of a Wikisource content page into a data frame. The Wikisource table of content page should link to all the Wikisource pages constituting the book. The text in the Wikisource pages is downloaded using the wikisource_page() function.

1	wikisource_book(url, cleaned = TRUE)

`url`	A url of a Wikisource content page listing the pages constituting the book.
`cleaned`	A boolean variable for cleaning Wikisource pages.

The download could fail if the Wikisource paths listed into content page strongly differ from the url path of the content page.

A five column tbl_df (a type of data frame; see tibble or dplyr packages) with one row for each line of the text or texts, with columns.

text: A character column
title: A character column with the title of the Wikisource summary page
page: Integer column with a number for the text from each Wikisource page downloaded
language: A character column with a two letter string refering the language of the text
url: A character column with the url of the Wikisource page of the text

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# download Voltaire's "Candide"
wikisource_book("https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Candide")

# download "Candide" in French and Spanish
library(purrr)

fr <- "https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Candide,_ou_l%E2%80%99Optimisme/Garnier_1877"
es <- "https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndido,_o_el_optimismo"
books <- map_df(c(fr, es), wikisource_book)

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