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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)
#> 1530 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting classicmediterr00devigoog
#> Getting MN5048ucmf_3
#> Getting bwb_O6-APW-895
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: 99 × 3
#>    id                        field                     value                    
#>    <chr>                     <chr>                     <chr>                    
#>  1 classicmediterr00devigoog publisher                 American Tract Society   
#>  2 classicmediterr00devigoog identifier                classicmediterr00devigoog
#>  3 classicmediterr00devigoog scanner                   google                   
#>  4 classicmediterr00devigoog title                     The Classic Mediterranean
#>  5 classicmediterr00devigoog creator                   John Bancroft Devins     
#>  6 classicmediterr00devigoog contributor               University of California 
#>  7 classicmediterr00devigoog mediatype                 texts                    
#>  8 classicmediterr00devigoog collection                americana                
#>  9 classicmediterr00devigoog possible-copyright-status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT         
#> 10 classicmediterr00devigoog identifier-access         http://www.archive.org/d…
#> # ℹ 89 more rows