In ropensci/rbhl: Interface to the 'Biodiversity' 'Heritage' Library

rbhl

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rbhl is an R interface to the Biodiversity Heritage Library API.

Authentication:

Get your Biodiversity Heritage Library API key at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/getapikey.aspx
Put your API key either in your .Renviron file (or similar) with the name BHL_KEY, or your .Rprofile file with the name bhl_key, and we'll use your API key without you having to enter it every time you run a search.

Documentation:

Biodiversity Heritage Library API documentation at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/docs/api3.html
Biodiversity Heritage Library OpenURL documentation at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx

Stable version

install.packages("rbhl")

Development version

remotes::install_github("ropensci/rbhl")

library("rbhl")

You can output various formats using the as parameter, setting to table, list, json or xml.

The default is usually table:

bhl_authorsearch(name='dimmock')

list output

bhl_authorsearch(name='dimmock', as='list')$Result[[1]]

XML output

bhl_authorsearch(name='dimmock', as='xml')

JSON output

bhl_authorsearch(name='dimmock', as='json')

bhl_gettitlemetadata(1726, items = TRUE, as = "list")$Result[[1]]$Items

bhl_publicationsearch('cocos island costa rica birds')

bhl_getlanguages()