get_these_and_save_them — get_and

The get_and_save function works with a tibble of locations (usually URLs) and file names, and then downloads the PDF from the location to the file name, saving as it goes, and letting you know where it is up to. It politely waits around 5 seconds between calls to the location, and skips locations that give an error.

get_and_save(
  data,
  links = "links",
  save_names = "save_names",
  dir = "heaps_of",
  bucket = NULL,
  delay = 5,
  print_every = 1,
  dupe_strategy = "overwrite"
)

Arguments

data	A dataframe that contains URLs that you want to download and the names that you want to save them as.
links	The name of the column whose values should be the URLs that you want to download, `links` by default.
save_names	The name of the column whose values should be the saved file names where the downloaded file will be saved, `save_names` by default.
dir	The directory to download files to, current working directory by default.
bucket	name of AWS S3 bucket to save files to.
delay	The number of seconds to wait between downloads, default (and minimum) is five seconds. We automatically add a bit of noise to lessen the effect on systematic processes that might be otherwise working.
print_every	The default is that you get a print message for every file, but you can change this. If you want to print an update for every second file then set this equal to 2, for a printed update every tenth file, set it to 10, etc.
dupe_strategy	There are a variety of ways of dealing with the situation where you already have some of the files downloaded. By default the function will just get them again and overwrite. However you can also specify 'ignore' in which case those files will be ignored. You can also investigate duplicates yourself using heapsofpapers::check_for_existence().

Value

A print statement in the console about whether each of the links was saved (if not turned off by the user), and notification that the function has finished.

Examples

if (FALSE) two_pdfs <-
tibble::tibble(
  locations_are = c("https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/z4qg9/download",
                    "https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/a29h8/download"),
  save_here = c("competing_effects_on_the_average_age_of_infant_death.pdf",
                "cesr_an_r_package_for_the_canadian_election_study.pdf")
)

heapsofpapers::get_and_save(
data = two_pdfs,
links = "locations_are",
save_names = "save_here"
)
#> Error in is.data.frame(data): object 'two_pdfs' not found