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WikipediR (version 1.3.0)

page_info: Retrieve information about a particular page

Description

page_info, when provided with a page title, retrieves metadata about that page.

Usage

page_info(language = NULL, project = NULL, domain = NULL, page,
  properties = c("protection", "talkid", "url", "displaytitle"),
  clean_response = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

language
The language code of the project you wish to query, if appropriate.
project
The project you wish to query ("wikiquote"), if appropriate. Should be provided in conjunction with language.
domain
as an alternative to a language and project combination, you can also provide a domain ("rationalwiki.org") to the URL constructor, allowing for the querying of non-Wikimedia MediaWiki instances.
page
the title of the page you want the metadata of.
properties
the properties you'd like to retrieve. Some properties (the pageID, namespace, title, language, length and most recent revision ID, for example) are retrieved by default, whatever is passed to properties: properties that can be explicitly ret
clean_response
whether to do some basic sanitising of the resulting data structure. Set to FALSE by default.
...
further arguments to pass to httr's GET.

Examples

Run this code
#Metadata
page_metadata <- page_info("en","wikipedia", page = "Aaron Halfaker")

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