wt_wikicommons {wikitaxa} | R Documentation |
WikiCommons
Description
WikiCommons
Usage
wt_wikicommons(name, utf8 = TRUE, ...)
wt_wikicommons_parse(
page,
types = c("langlinks", "iwlinks", "externallinks", "common_names", "classification"),
tidy = FALSE
)
wt_wikicommons_search(query, limit = 10, offset = 0, utf8 = TRUE, ...)
Arguments
name |
(character) Wiki name - as a page title, must be length 1 |
utf8 |
(logical) If |
... |
curl options, passed on to |
page |
( |
types |
(character) List of properties to parse |
tidy |
(logical). tidy output to data.frame's if possible.
Default: |
query |
(character) query terms |
limit |
(integer) number of results to return. Default: 10 |
offset |
(integer) record to start at. Default: 0 |
Value
wt_wikicommons
returns a list, with slots:
langlinks - language page links
externallinks - external links
common_names - a data.frame with
name
andlanguage
columnsclassification - a data.frame with
rank
andname
columns
wt_wikicommons_parse
returns a list
wt_wikicommons_search
returns a list with slots for continue
and
query
, where query
holds the results, with query$search
slot with
the search results
References
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search for help on search
Examples
## Not run:
# high level
wt_wikicommons(name = "Malus domestica")
wt_wikicommons(name = "Pinus contorta")
wt_wikicommons(name = "Ursus americanus")
wt_wikicommons(name = "Balaenoptera musculus")
wt_wikicommons(name = "Category:Poeae")
wt_wikicommons(name = "Category:Pinaceae")
# low level
pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica")
wt_wikicommons_parse(pg)
# search wikicommons
# FIXME: utf=FALSE for now until curl::curl_escape fix
# https://github.com/jeroen/curl/issues/228
wt_wikicommons_search(query = "Pinus", utf8 = FALSE)
## use search results to dig into pages
res <- wt_wikicommons_search(query = "Pinus", utf8 = FALSE)
lapply(res$query$search$title[1:3], wt_wikicommons)
## End(Not run)