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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)
#> 1455 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes
#> Getting gloryofmangerstu0000samu
#> Getting bwb_W9-DDS-860
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: 155 × 3
#>    id                       field          value                   
#>    <chr>                    <chr>          <chr>                   
#>  1 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes identifier     thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes
#>  2 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes boxid          IA40777514              
#>  3 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes camera         USB PTP Class Camera    
#>  4 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes col_number     COL-912                 
#>  5 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes collection_set printdisabled           
#>  6 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes contributor    Internet Archive        
#>  7 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes creator        J. wesley bready        
#>  8 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes date           1942                    
#>  9 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes language       eng                     
#> 10 thisfreedomwhenc0000jwes mediatype      texts                   
#> # ℹ 145 more rows