`hgr` : Tools to Work with the 'Postlight' 'Mercury' 'API'
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).
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
### Installation
``` r
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/hgr")
```
### Usage
``` r
library(hgr)
# current verison
packageVersion("hgr")
```
## [1] '0.3.0'
``` r
story <- "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0"
doc <- just_the_facts(story)
dplyr::glimpse(doc)
```
## List of 12
## $ title : chr "Aircraft Carrier Wasn’t Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested"
## $ content : chr "
\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n"| __truncated__
## $ author : chr "Mark Landler and Eric Schmitt"
## $ date_published: POSIXct[1:1], format: "2017-04-18 17:57:41"
## $ lead_image_url: chr "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/19/world/19carrier-sub/19carrier-sub-facebookJumbo.jpg"
## $ url : chr "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html"
## $ domain : chr "www.nytimes.com"
## $ excerpt : chr "The saga might never have come to light had the Navy not posted a photograph of the Carl Vinson sailing through"| __truncated__
## $ word_count : int 1499
## $ direction : chr "ltr"
## $ total_pages : int 1
## $ rendered_pages: int 1
## - attr(*, "row.names")= int 1
## - attr(*, "class")= chr "hgr"
``` r
substr(doc$content, 1, 100)
```
## [1] "\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n "
``` r
plain <- clean_text(doc$content)
substr(plain, 1, 100)
```
## [1] "WASHINGTON — Just over a week ago, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carri"
### Test Results
``` r
library(hgr)
library(testthat)
date()
```
## [1] "Wed Sep 13 14:44:54 2017"
``` r
test_dir("tests/")
```
## testthat results ========================================================================================================
## OK: 1 SKIPPED: 0 FAILED: 0
##
## DONE ===================================================================================================================