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Access the item metadata from an Internet Archive item

Usage

ia_metadata(items)

Arguments

items

A list object describing an Internet Archive items returned from the API.

Value

A data frame containing the metadata, with columns id for the item identifier, field for the name of the metadata field, and value for the metadata values.

Examples

ats_query <- c("publisher" = "american tract society")
ids       <- ia_search(ats_query, num_results = 3)
#> 1482 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting socialreligiousl00basm
#> Getting rightwayorgospel00coll
#> Getting 101214593.nlm.nih.gov
metadata  <- ia_metadata(items)
#> Warning: `data_frame()` was deprecated in tibble 1.1.0.
#>  Please use `tibble()` instead.
#>  The deprecated feature was likely used in the internetarchive package.
#>   Please report the issue at
#>   <https://github.com/ropensci/internetarchive/issues>.
metadata
#> # A tibble: 133 × 3
#>    id                     field          value                                  
#>    <chr>                  <chr>          <chr>                                  
#>  1 socialreligiousl00basm language       eng                                    
#>  2 socialreligiousl00basm scanningcenter capitolhill                            
#>  3 socialreligiousl00basm sponsor        The Library of Congress                
#>  4 socialreligiousl00basm contributor    The Library of Congress                
#>  5 socialreligiousl00basm date           1890                                   
#>  6 socialreligiousl00basm subject1       Missions                               
#>  7 socialreligiousl00basm subject2       Missions -- Armenia                    
#>  8 socialreligiousl00basm subject3       Armenia                                
#>  9 socialreligiousl00basm subject4       Turkey -- Social life and customs      
#> 10 socialreligiousl00basm title          Social and religious life in the Orien…
#> # ℹ 123 more rows