Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more — free from any clutter. You need an API key which you can get from [here](https://mercury.postlight.com).
# hgr
Tools to Work with the ‘Postlight’ ‘Mercury’ ‘API’
## Description
The ‘Postlight’ ‘Mercury’ ‘API’ <https://mercury.postlight.com> takes
any web article and returns only the relevant content - headline,
author, body text, images and more - free from any clutter and including
only minimal markup. Tools are provided to access the ‘API’ and also
further clean up retrieved text through the the application of ‘XSLT’
style sheets. An ‘RStudio’ ‘Addin’ is also provided which makes it
possible to preview the cleaned content from a ‘URL’ on the clipboard.
You need an API key which you can get from
[here](https://mercury.postlight.com).
## What’s inside the tin?
The following functions are implemented:
- `just_the_facts`: Retrieve parsed content of a URL processed by the Postlight Mercury API
- `clean_text`: Remove all HTML/XML tags from an HTML document/atomic character vector
- `just_the_facts`: Retrieve parsed content of a URL processed by the
Postlight Mercury API
- `clean_text`: Remove all HTML/XML tags from an HTML document/atomic
character vector
### Installation
## Installation
``` r
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/hgr")
```
### Usage
## Usage
``` r
library(hgr)
@ -63,22 +88,8 @@ substr(plain, 1, 100)
## [1] "WASHINGTON — Just over a week ago, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carri"