These are helper functions for package development, not written in man page index but available to advanced users.

get_index_url finds out the newest index page of a board. It takes a board's URL (e.g. https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/index.html) as input and returns a character vector of length 2.

get_index_info takes a board's index URL as input and extract the content of the page into a data frame with 6 variables.

get_index_url(board_url)

get_index_info(board_url)

Arguments

board_url

Character. A board's index page URL.

Value

get_index_url returns a char vector of length 2. The first element is a number, and the second is a URL.

get_index_info returns a data frame with n rows and 6 variables, where n is the number of post links on an index page.

See also