https://github.com/news-r/loc

📚 R wrapper to the Library of Congress APIs
https://github.com/news-r/loc

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📚 R wrapper to the Library of Congress APIs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/news-r/loc
• Owner: news-r
• License: other
• Created: 2019-06-03T18:24:54.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-11T21:19:48.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-20T16:51:17.527Z (26 days ago)
• Topics: library-of-congress, r, rstats
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 919 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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output: github_document

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```{r, include = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",

  out.width = "100%"

)

```

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# loc

Access the [Library of Congress](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) from R.

> Chronicling America provides access [140,000] historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages.

## Installation

``` r

# install.packages("remotes")

remotes::install_github("news-r/loc")

```

## Example

```{r}

library(loc)

# titles

titles <- loc_search_titles("michigan", pages = 2)

# pages

(articles <- loc_search_pages("Thomas"))

```

The text of the newspaper is in the `ocr_eng` variable. You can reconstruct endpoints to specific newspapers, editions, or issues.

```{r}

a <- sample(articles$url, 1) # take a random article

pdf <- gsub(".json", ".pdf", a) # change to PDF

# browseURL(pdf)

```

![](loc.png)

And you can get the text with:

```{r}

txt <- gsub(".json", "/ocr.txt", a) # change to PDF

readLines(txt)

```