Access the item metadata from an Internet Archive item
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)
#> 1481 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting lifeofrevdavidbr00brai
#> Getting lordofglorys00warf
#> Getting manualofamerican00hard
metadata <- ia_metadata(items)
#> Warning: `data_frame()` was deprecated in tibble 1.1.0.
#> ℹ Please use `tibble()` instead.
#> ℹ The deprecated feature was likely used in the internetarchive package.
#> Please report the issue at
#> <https://github.com/ropensci/internetarchive/issues>.
metadata
#> # A tibble: 142 × 3
#> id field value
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai title The Life of Rev. David Brainerd, chiefly…
#> 2 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai creator1 Brainerd, David, 1718-1747
#> 3 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai creator2 Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
#> 4 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai creator3 Flavel, John, 1630?-1691. Treatise on ke…
#> 5 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai subject Indians of North America--Missions
#> 6 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai description1 First edition, Boston, 1749, published u…
#> 7 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai description2 With copy 1 is bound: A Treatise on keep…
#> 8 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai publisher New York : American Tract Society
#> 9 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai date 1800
#> 10 lifeofrevdavidbr00brai language eng
#> # ℹ 132 more rows