Goodreader (version 0.1.1)

scrape_reviews: Scrape book reviews from Goodreads

Description

This function scrapes book reviews from Goodreads based on provided book IDs.

Usage

scrape_reviews(
  book_ids_path,
  num_reviews = 30,
  use_parallel = FALSE,
  num_cores = 4
)

Value

A data frame containing scraped review information.

Arguments

book_ids_path

A character string specifying the path to a file containing book IDs.

num_reviews

An integer specifying the number of reviews to scrape per book. Default is 30.

use_parallel

A logical value indicating whether to use parallel processing. Default is FALSE.

num_cores

An integer specifying the number of cores to use for parallel processing. Default is 4.

Examples

# \donttest{
# Create a temporary file with sample book IDs
temp_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".txt")
writeLines(c("1420", "2767052", "10210"), temp_file)
# Run the function (with a small number of reviews to keep the example quick)
reviews <- scrape_reviews(temp_file, num_reviews = 5, use_parallel = FALSE)
print(head(reviews))
# Clean up: remove the temporary file
file.remove(temp_file)
# }