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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)
#> 1452 total items found. This query requested 3 results.
items     <- ia_get_items(ids)
#> Getting crossincellconv00unkngoog
#> Getting memoirofnathanwd0000abbo
#> Getting gloryofmangerstu0000samu
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: 136 × 3
#>    id                        field                     value                    
#>    <chr>                     <chr>                     <chr>                    
#>  1 crossincellconv00unkngoog google-id                 3dgTAAAAYAAJ             
#>  2 crossincellconv00unkngoog identifier                crossincellconv00unkngoog
#>  3 crossincellconv00unkngoog scanner                   google                   
#>  4 crossincellconv00unkngoog title                     The cross in the cell: c…
#>  5 crossincellconv00unkngoog source                    http://books.google.com/…
#>  6 crossincellconv00unkngoog publisher                 American Tract Society, …
#>  7 crossincellconv00unkngoog mediatype                 texts                    
#>  8 crossincellconv00unkngoog collection                americana                
#>  9 crossincellconv00unkngoog possible-copyright-status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT         
#> 10 crossincellconv00unkngoog identifier-access         http://www.archive.org/d…
#> # ℹ 126 more rows