GoogleKnowledgeGraphR (version 0.1.0)

gkg: Function to retrive Data from Google Knowledge Graph API as a Data Frame output

Description

This function allows you to get the Information for a specific Keyword you enter. The output is a Dataframe with the Data retrived by the Google API.

Usage

gkg(query, token = "AIzaSyDsxs2vKm33doRABnW4JoieK8RrDQvJwds",
  language = "en", limit = 1, types = "", prefix = FALSE,
  type_output = TRUE)

Arguments

query

The keyword you want to get the information for

token

The token for yor Google API Project. Please use your own token if you have a lot of querys. You can find additional informations about the token here: https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/prereqs

language

The list of language codes (defined in ISO 639) to run the query with. Default is "en"

limit

Limits the number of entities to be returned. The API-Limit is 20.

types

Restricts returned entities to those of the specified types. For example, you can specify Person (as defined in http://schema.org/Person) to restrict the results to entities representing people. If multiple types are specified, returned entities will contain one or more of these types. Default are all types.

prefix

Enables prefix (initial substring) match against names and aliases of entities. For example, a prefix Jung will match entities and aliases such as Jung, Jungle, and Jung-ho Kang. Default is FALSE.

type_output

In most cases, the API returns more than one type for a keyword. If type_output is set to TRUE, the types are placed in a cell. FALSE returns the list of types in a row. Default is TRUE. gkg()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
{
gkg("beer")
}
# }