Download public domain works from Wikisource
The package wikisourcer
helps you download public domain works from the free library Wikisource.
It includes two functions for downloading books and pages by url.
wikisource_book()
to download a book.wikisource_page()
to download a page.install.packages("wikisourcer") # or devtools::install_github("lgnbhl/wikisourcer")
Download Voltaire’s philosophical novel Candide.
library(wikisourcer) wikisource_book(url = "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Candide")
Download Chapter 1 of Candide.
wikisource_page("https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Candide/Chapter_1", page = "Chapter 1")
Download Candide in French, Spanish and Italian.
library(purrr) fr <- "https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Candide,_ou_l%E2%80%99Optimisme/Garnier_1877" es <- "https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndido,_o_el_optimismo" it <- "https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Candido" purrr::map_df(c(fr, es, it), wikisource_book)
For more information on how to use wikisourcer, please read the vignette.