page_backlinks function

Retrieve a page's backlinks

page_backlinks, when provided with a page title, retrieves backlinks to that page. Output can be filtered to specific namespaces.

page_backlinks(
  language = NULL,
  project = NULL,
  domain = NULL,
  page,
  limit = 50,
  direction = "ascending",
  namespaces = NULL,
  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 backlinks of.
• limit: the number of backlinks to return. Set to 50 (the maximum) by default.
• direction: the direction to order the backlinks in, by linking page ID: "ascending" or "descending". Set to "ascending" by default.
• namespaces: The namespaces to filter to. By default, backlinks from any namespace are retrieved: alternately, a numeric vector of accepted namespaces (which are described here) can be provided, and only backlinks from pages within those namespaces will be returned.
• 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.

Warnings

as with pages_in_category, if the page you are linking to does not exist, an empty list will be returned, without any indication of an error.

Examples

## Not run:

#Backlink
all_bls <- page_backlinks("en","wikipedia", page = "Aaron Halfaker")

#Namespace-specific backlinks
mainspace_bls <- page_backlinks("en","wikipedia", page = "Aaron Halfaker", namespaces = 0)
## End(Not run)