| Title: | R Wrapper for Wikipedia Data |
| Version: | 0.9.0 |
| Description: | A simple wrapper for 'Wikipedia' data. Specifically, this package looks to fill a gap in retrieving text data in a tidy format that can be used for Natural Language Processing. |
| Imports: | jsonlite |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.1.1 |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown |
| VignetteBuilder: | knitr |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2022-05-11 00:16:09 UTC; corydonbaylor |
| Author: | Corydon Baylor [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Corydon Baylor <cwbaylor1@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2022-05-12 08:20:05 UTC |
Clean Your Wiki
Description
This function accepts a string and removes new line indentations and html tags with regex
Usage
clean_wiki(string)
Arguments
string |
The string to be cleaned |
Examples
clean_wiki("<p>some text</p>")
Get the Text of a Wikipedia Article
Description
Get the text of a wikipedia article by searching a title. For example, entering the search term "France" will return the text of the wikipedia page for France.
Usage
get_wiki(title, clean = TRUE)
Arguments
title |
The title or (titles) of the Wikipedia page to be searched. If you would like to query multiple articles, put the titles in a character vector. The maximum number of titles that can be queried at one time is 50. |
clean |
Should getwiki remove html tags from the returned text? |
Value
A single title will return the matched wikipedia article in a string. A vector of titles will return a dataframe with one column equal to the searched titles and one column equal to the matched article content
Examples
get_wiki("United States")
get_wiki(c("United States", "France"))
Get the Text of a Random Wikipedia Article
Description
Get the text of a random wikipedia article
Usage
random_wiki(clean = TRUE)
Arguments
clean |
Should getwiki remove html tags from the returned text? |
Value
random_wiki will return a single named character value whose value is the text of the wikipedia page
Examples
random_wiki()
Search Wikipedia for Articles
Description
Search for the top twenty wikipedia pages that match a given query. This function will return a dataframe with the names of the matched articles and the first paragraph of content.
Usage
search_wiki(search_term, clean = TRUE)
Arguments
search_term |
The search term you would like to use. |
clean |
Should getwiki remove html tags from the returned text? |
Value
search_term will return a dataframe of the top twenty search results. The "title" column will be the title of the articles and the "content" column will be the first paragraph from those articles.
Examples
search_wiki("Belgrade")
Find the Page Views for an Article
Description
Find the page views for an article for the past sixty days.
Usage
trend_wiki(title)
Arguments
title |
The title of the Wikipedia article you would like trends for. |
Value
trend_wiki will return a dataframe of the past sixty days of page views for the requested title
Examples
trend_wiki("Belgrade")