gutenbergr (version 0.1.1)

gutenberg_metadata: Gutenberg metadata about each work

Description

Selected fields of metadata about each of the Project Gutenberg works. These were collected using the gitenberg Python package, particularly the pg_rdf_to_json function.

Usage

gutenberg_metadata

Details

To find the date on which this metadata was last updated, run attr(gutenberg_metadata, "date_updated").

See Also

gutenberg_works, gutenberg_authors, gutenberg_subjects

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(stringr)

gutenberg_metadata

gutenberg_metadata %>%
  count(author, sort = TRUE)

# look for Shakespeare, excluding collections (containing "Works") and translations
shakespeare_metadata <- gutenberg_metadata %>%
  filter(author == "Shakespeare, William",
         language == "en",
         !str_detect(title, "Works"),
         has_text,
         !str_detect(rights, "Copyright")) %>%
         distinct(title)

shakespeare_works <- gutenberg_download(shakespeare_metadata$gutenberg_id)

# note that the gutenberg_works() function filters for English
# non-copyrighted works and does de-duplication by default:

shakespeare_metadata2 <- gutenberg_works(author == "Shakespeare, William",
                                         !str_detect(title, "Works"))

# date last updated
attr(gutenberg_metadata, "date_updated")