oa_random {openalexR}

oa_fetch but for a random query

Description

oa_fetch but for a random query

Usage

oa_random(
  entity = oa_entities(),
  output = c("tibble", "dataframe", "list"),
  endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org"
)

Arguments

entity

Character. Scholarly entity of the search. The argument can be one of c("works", "authors", "institutions", "concepts", "funders", "sources", "publishers", "topics"). If not provided, 'entity' is guessed from 'identifier'.

output

Character. Type of output, either a list or a tibble/data.frame.

endpoint

Character. URL of the OpenAlex Endpoint API server. Defaults to endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org".

Value

A data.frame or a list. One row or one element. Result of the random query. If you would like to select more than one random entity, say, 10, use 'options = list(sample = 10)' argument in 'oa_fetch'.

Examples

oa_random()