legislatoR (version 1.1.0)

get_traffic: Fetch Wikipedia 'Traffic' table

Description

Fetches daily user traffic on legislators' Wikipedia biographies for the specified legislature. Requires a working Internet connection.

Usage

get_traffic(legislature)

Value

A data frame with columns as specified above.

Format

Data frame with columns:

• pageid: Wikipedia page ID identifying a legislator's Wikipedia biography (of class ‘integer’).

• date: Date for which user traffic is recorded, from 2015-07-01 to 2018-12-31 UTC (of class ‘POSIXct’).

• traffic: Daily non-unique user visits (of class ‘numeric’).

Arguments

legislature

A character string specifying the three-letter country code of the legislature for which data shall be fetched. Currently one of ‘aut’, ‘can’, ‘cze’, ‘esp’, ‘fra’, ‘deu’, ‘irl’, ‘sco’, ‘gbr’, ‘usa_house’, or ‘usa_senate’.

Examples

# Get entire 'Traffic' table for the Scottish Parliament
sco_traffic <- get_traffic(legislature = "sco")
tibble::glimpse(sco_traffic)

# Add Wikidataid to 'Traffic' table for the Scottish Parliament
sco_traffic_subset <- dplyr::inner_join(x = dplyr::select(get_core(legislature = "sco"),
                                                          pageid, wikidataid),
                                        y = sco_traffic,
                                        by = "pageid")
tibble::glimpse(sco_traffic_subset)