page_external_links function

Retrieve a page's links

page_external_links, when provided with a page title, retrieves external wikilinks from the current revision of that page.

page_external_links(
  language = NULL,
  project = NULL,
  domain = NULL,
  page,
  protocol = 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 links of.
• protocol: limit links to those with certain link protocols. Options are listed in Special:ApiSandbox's elprotocol field.
• 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.

Examples

## Not run:

#Links
external_links <- page_external_links("en","wikipedia", page = "Aaron Halfaker")

#Protocol-specific links
external_http_links <- page_external_links("en","wikipedia",
                                          page = "Aaron Halfaker", protocol = "http")
## End(Not run)