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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)
#> 1483 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting danielsaffordmem0000unse
#> Getting historyofpeterth00amer
#> Getting historyreformat02aubgoog
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: 151 × 3
#>    id                       field       value                   
#>    <chr>                    <chr>       <chr>                   
#>  1 danielsaffordmem0000unse identifier  danielsaffordmem0000unse
#>  2 danielsaffordmem0000unse boxid       IA41426601              
#>  3 danielsaffordmem0000unse camera      USB PTP Class Camera    
#>  4 danielsaffordmem0000unse col_number  COL-2833                
#>  5 danielsaffordmem0000unse collection  internetarchivebooks    
#>  6 danielsaffordmem0000unse contributor Internet Archive        
#>  7 danielsaffordmem0000unse creator     Henry Hill              
#>  8 danielsaffordmem0000unse date        1861                    
#>  9 danielsaffordmem0000unse language    eng                     
#> 10 danielsaffordmem0000unse mediatype   texts                   
#> # ℹ 141 more rows