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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)
#> 1491 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting ldpd_10998157_000
#> Getting ldpd_6972210_000
#> Getting historyofworko00edwa
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: 102 × 3
#>    id                field       value                                          
#>    <chr>             <chr>       <chr>                                          
#>  1 ldpd_10998157_000 identifier  ldpd_10998157_000                              
#>  2 ldpd_10998157_000 mediatype   texts                                          
#>  3 ldpd_10998157_000 collection1 columbiamrlpamphlets                           
#>  4 ldpd_10998157_000 collection2 ColumbiaUniversityLibraries                    
#>  5 ldpd_10998157_000 collection3 americana                                      
#>  6 ldpd_10998157_000 contributor Columbia University Libraries                  
#>  7 ldpd_10998157_000 scanner     Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.0          
#>  8 ldpd_10998157_000 title       Conversion of Rama Chundra : a Hindoo native p…
#>  9 ldpd_10998157_000 publicdate  2015-01-14 20:52:02                            
#> 10 ldpd_10998157_000 addeddate   2015-01-14 20:52:02                            
#> # ℹ 92 more rows