longurl (version 0.2.0)

expand_urls: Expand a vector of (short) URLs using the URL-Expander service

Description

Pass in a vector of URLs (ostensibly "short" URLs) and receive a data_frame of the original URLs and expanded URLs via the 'URL-Expander' service.

Usage

expand_urls(urls_to_expand, check = FALSE, warn = TRUE, .progress = interactive())

Arguments

urls_to_expand

character vector of URLs

check

run an extra HEAD request on the expanded URL to determine validity. This is an expensive operation, so recommended usage is to run this only on URLs that did not seem to expand.

warn

show any warnings (API or otherwise) as messages

.progress

display a progress bar (generally only useful in interactive sesions)

Value

data_frame (compatible with data.frame) of results with the orignial URLs in orig_url and expanded URLs in expanded_url)

Examples

test_urls <- c("http://t.co/D4C7aWYIiA",
               "1.usa.gov/1J6GNoW",
               "ift.tt/1L2Llfr")
big_urls <- expand_urls(test_urls)
head(big_urls)