Package: wikiTools 1.2.24

wikiTools: Tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia

A set of wrappers intended to check, read and download information from the Wikimedia sources. It is specifically created to work with names of celebrities, in which case their information and statistics can be downloaded. Additionally, it also builds links and snippets to use in combination with the function gallery() in netCoin package.

Authors:Modesto Escobar [aut, cph, cre], Ángel Zazo [aut], Carlos Prieto [aut], David Barrios [aut], Cristina Calvo [aut]

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wikiTools/json (API)

# Install 'wikiTools' in R:

install.packages('wikiTools', repos = c('https://modesto-escobar.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/modesto-escobar/wikitools/issues

On CRAN:

5.30 score 2 stars 10 scripts 516 downloads 39 exports 61 dependencies

Last updated from:8f9f01a58e. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	158
source / vignettes	OK	269
linux-release-x86_64	OK	159
macos-release-arm64	OK	142
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	110
windows-devel	OK	78
windows-release	OK	90
windows-oldrel	OK	76
wasm-release	OK	166

Exports:cc extractWiki filext getFiles getWikiData getWikiFiles getWikiInf m_Opensearch m_Pageviews m_reqMediaWiki m_XtoolsInfo nametoWikiFrame nametoWikiHtml nametoWikiURL pop_up preName searchWiki selectLang urltoFrame urltoHtml v_AutoSuggest v_dfVIAF v_Extract v_GetRecord v_Search validUrl w_EntityInfo w_Exhibit w_Geoloc w_isInstanceOf w_isValid w_LabelDesc w_Property w_SearchByAuthority w_SearchByIdentifiers w_SearchByInstanceof w_SearchByLabel w_SearchByOccupation w_Wikipedias

Dependencies:askpass backports bit bit64 checkmate class classInt cli clipr collections cpp11 crayon curl data.table DBI e1071 evolMap forcats Formula generics glue GPArotation haven hms httr igraph insight jsonlite KernSmooth lattice lifecycle magrittr marginaleffects MASS Matrix mime netCoin nnet openssl pillar pkgconfig prettyunits progress proxy R6 Rcpp rD3plot readr rlang s2 sf sys tibble tidyselect tzdb units utf8 vctrs vroom withr wk

wikiTools package

Rendered fromwiki_utils.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-05-25
Started: 2023-10-06

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Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Converts a text separated by commas into a character vector.	cc
Check if all Wikidata entities in entity_list have valid values	checkEntities
checkTitles(titles) Check if titles are valid. Return TRUE is all titles are valid, else FALSE. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name#Technical_restrictions_and_limitations	checkTitles
Execute a function in chunks.	doChunks
Extract the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article with a maximum of characters.	extractWiki
Extract the extension of a file	filext
Downloads a list of files in a specified path of the computer, and return a vector of the no-found names (if any).	getFiles
Create a data.frame with Wikidata of a vector of names.	getWikiData
Downloads a list of Wikipedia pages in a specified path of the computer, and return a vector of the no-found names (if any).	getWikiFiles
Create a data.frame with Q's and descriptions of a vector of names.	getWikiInf
httrGetJSON Retrieve responses in JSON format using httr::GET. It is a generic function to use for request these Wikimedia metrics API: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/XTools/API/Page (xtools.wmflabs.org)	httrGetJSON
Limits the rate at which a function will execute	limitRequester
Open search of a string	m_Opensearch
Get number of views of a Wikipedia article	m_Pageviews
Retrieve responses using the MediaWiki API.	m_reqMediaWiki
Gets various information from a Wikimedia page	m_XtoolsInfo
Convert names into a Wikipedia's iframe	nametoWikiFrame
Create the Wikipedia link of a name or entry.	nametoWikiHtml
Create the Wikipedia URL of a name or entry.	nametoWikiURL
Return the normalized and redirect title from the response	normalizedTitle
Create a drop-down vignette for nodes from different items (for galleries).	pop_up
Reverse the order of the first and last names of every element of a vector.	preName
Uses httr package to retrieve responses using the MediaWiki API.	reqMediaWiki
Get responses from Wikidata Query Service	reqWDQS
Find if there is a Wikipedia page of a name(s) in the selected language.	searchWiki
Convert names of a wikiTools data frame to English or Spanish	selectLang
Convert an URL link to an HTML iframe.	urltoFrame
Convert a Wikipedia URL to an HTML link	urltoHtml
See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette	user_agent
Suggests VIAF id from a name	v_AutoSuggest
Flatten VIAF API Data into a Data Frame	v_dfVIAF
Gets information from a VIAF record	v_Extract
Gets record clusters using viafID or other identifier in the VIAF cluster record.	v_GetRecord
Search the VIAF database using CQL queries	v_Search
Find if an URL link is valid.	validUrl
Get information about a Wikimedia entity (human or film)	w_EntityInfo
Extract the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article with a maximum of characters.	w_Exhibit
Get Latitude and Longitude coordinates, and Country of places	w_Geoloc
Check if a Wikidata entity is an instance of a class	w_isInstanceOf
Check if Wikidata entities are valid	w_isValid
Return label and/or descriptions of Wikidata entities	w_LabelDesc
Get properties of Wikidata entities	w_Property
Response from Wikidata Query Service	w_query
Get entities that have identifier in a database or authorities' catalog.	w_SearchByAuthority
Search for entities that may match identifiers in a database or authorities' catalog.	w_SearchByIdentifiers
Get entities which are instance of a Wikidata entity	w_SearchByInstanceof
Search Wikidata entities by string (usually labels)	w_SearchByLabel
Get Wikidata entities with a certain occupation	w_SearchByOccupation
Get Wikipedia pages of Wikidata entities	w_Wikipedias