Retrieve additional data on EU documents — elx_fetch

Get titles, texts, identifiers and XML notices for EU resources.

elx_fetch_data(
  url,
  type = c("title", "text", "ids", "notice"),
  notice = c("tree", "branch", "object"),
  language_1 = "en",
  language_2 = "fr",
  language_3 = "de",
  include_breaks = TRUE,
  html_text = c("text2", "text")
)

Arguments

url: A valid url as character vector of length one based on a resource identifier such as CELEX or Cellar URI.
type: The type of data to be retrieved. When type = "text", the returned list contains named elements reflecting the source of each text. When type = "notice", the results return an XML notice associated with the url.
notice: If type = "notice", controls what kind of metadata are returned by the notice.
language_1: The priority language in which the data will be attempted to be retrieved, in ISO 639 2-char code
language_2: If data not available in language_1, try language_2
language_3: If data not available in language_2, try language_3
include_breaks: If TRUE, text includes tags showing where pages ("---pagebreak---", for pdfs) and documents ("---documentbreak---") were concatenated
html_text: Choose whether to read text from html using rvest::html_text2() ("text2") or rvest::html_text() ("text")

Value

A character vector of length one containing the result. When type = "text", named character vector where the name contains the source of the text.

Examples

# \donttest{
elx_fetch_data(url = "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32014R0001", type = "title")
#> [1] "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1/2014 of 28 August 2013 establishing Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences"
# }