fetch_ratings: Fetch IMDB ratings for all South Park episodes.

In pdrhlik/southparkr: South Park Script Scraper

Description

Downloads and parses basic information and ratings about every South Park episode. It uses the only official way that allows you to get data directly from IMDB - https://datasets.imdbws.com/.

Usage

fetch_ratings(force_download = FALSE, make_rds = TRUE,
  delete_files = FALSE)

Arguments

force_download	If TRUE (default FALSE), download new IMDB files even if there are cached files.
make_rds	If TRUE (default TRUE), automatically saves fetched and parsed data to ratings.rds in a current working directory.
delete_files	If TRUE (default FALSE), deletes downloaded files after processing.

Details

The function downloads, parses and joins three of these files: title.episode.tsv.gz, title.basics.tsv.gz and title.ratings.tsv.gz.

Value

Data frame with following columns:

episode_imdb_id

IMDB ID that identifies an episode, movie or TV show.

season_number

Season number.

season_episode_number

Episode number in a season.

episode_name

Name of the episode.

air_date

Year when the episode aired.

user_rating

Weighted average of user ratings.

user_votes

Number of user votes.

pdrhlik/southparkr documentation built on May 8, 2019, 1:49 p.m.