Arguments
path
URL to fetch metadata from. If left empty, the function constructs a URL from the node and topnodes arguments
node
A string with the name of the node to fetch. This is ignored if path is supplied.
topnodes
A string or list of strings with the names of the parent nodes of node. This is ignored if path is supplied.
quiet
Quiet mode (never return a message to the user)
baseURL
The base URL to use, depending on the web service. Needed if path argument is not provided.
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Further arguments passed to base_url().