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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)
#> 1529 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting georgewhitefield00belciala
#> Getting historyofpeterth00amer
#> Getting cihm_42274
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: 178 × 3
#>    id                         field                       value                 
#>    <chr>                      <chr>                       <chr>                 
#>  1 georgewhitefield00belciala title                       George Whitefield: a …
#>  2 georgewhitefield00belciala creator                     Belcher, Joseph, 1794…
#>  3 georgewhitefield00belciala subject                     Whitefield, George, 1…
#>  4 georgewhitefield00belciala publisher                   New York : American T…
#>  5 georgewhitefield00belciala date                        [pref. 1857]          
#>  6 georgewhitefield00belciala language                    eng                   
#>  7 georgewhitefield00belciala copyright-evidence-operator alyson-wieczorek      
#>  8 georgewhitefield00belciala possible-copyright-status   NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT      
#>  9 georgewhitefield00belciala copyright-region            US                    
#> 10 georgewhitefield00belciala copyright-evidence          Evidence reported by …
#> # ℹ 168 more rows