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)
| board_url | Character. A board's index page URL. |
|---|
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.