get_dest: Get the destination of a link

In ropenscilabs/mwparser: Wikimarkup parser

Description

For Wikilink and ExternalLink nodes, get_dest will retrieve the destination they are pointing to.

Usage

get_dest(nodes, as_text = FALSE)

Arguments

nodes	a set of Wikitext nodes retrieved with get_nodes
as_text	whether to return the results as nodes or strings.

Value

Either a list of nodes or a vector of strings, depending on as_text's value.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(magrittr)
library(mwparser)
raw_wikitext <- "[http://this.is.a external link]"

text <- read_wikitext(raw_wikitext) %>%
   get_nodes(types = "external_links") %>%
   get_dest

## End(Not run)

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