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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)
#> 1476 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog
#> Getting masterpreacherst0000albe
#> Getting metaphorsofstpau0000hows_o8u3
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: 137 × 3
#>    id                        field                     value                    
#>    <chr>                     <chr>                     <chr>                    
#>  1 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog publisher                 American Tract Society ,…
#>  2 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog identifier                jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog
#>  3 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog scanner                   google                   
#>  4 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog title                     Jessie's work; or, Faith…
#>  5 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog creator                   Mary Elizabeth Shipley   
#>  6 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog mediatype                 texts                    
#>  7 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog collection                europeanlibraries        
#>  8 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog possible-copyright-status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT         
#>  9 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog year                      1873                     
#> 10 jessiesworkorfa00shipgoog date                      1873                     
#> # ℹ 127 more rows