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Goodreader

Scrape and Analyze 'Goodreads' Book Data

v0.1.2 · Oct 24, 2024 · GPL-3

Description

A comprehensive toolkit for scraping and analyzing book data from <https://www.goodreads.com/>. This package provides functions to search for books, scrape book details and reviews, perform sentiment analysis on reviews, and conduct topic modeling. It's designed for researchers, data analysts, and book enthusiasts who want to gain insights from 'Goodreads' data.

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examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in UseMethod("xml_find_all") : 
  no applicable method for 'xml_find_all' applied to an object of class "xml_document"
Calls: search_goodreads ... html_elements -> html_elements.default -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in UseMethod("xml_find_all") : 
  no applicable method for 'xml_find_all' applied to an object of class "xml_document"
Calls: search_goodreads ... html_elements -> html_elements.default -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in read_xml.raw(raw, encoding = encoding, base_url = base_url, as_html = as_html,  : 
  Failed to parse text
Calls: search_goodreads -> scrape_page -> <Anonymous> -> read_html.default
Execution halted
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in read_xml.raw(raw, encoding = encoding, base_url = base_url, as_html = as_html,  : 
  Failed to parse text
Calls: search_goodreads -> scrape_page -> <Anonymous> -> read_html.default
Execution halted
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'Goodreader-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in read_xml.raw(raw, encoding = encoding, base_url = base_url, as_html = as_html,  : 
  Failed to parse text
Calls: search_goodreads -> scrape_page -> <Anonymous> -> read_html.default
Execution halted
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'Goodreader-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in read_xml.raw(raw, encoding = encoding, base_url = base_url, as_html = as_html,  : 
  Failed to parse text
Calls: search_goodreads -> scrape_page -> <Anonymous> -> read_html.default
Execution halted
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64

examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in UseMethod("xml_find_all") : 
  no applicable method for 'xml_find_all' applied to an object of class "xml_document"
Calls: search_goodreads ... html_elements -> html_elements.default -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64

examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in UseMethod("xml_find_all") : 
  no applicable method for 'xml_find_all' applied to an object of class "xml_document"
Calls: search_goodreads ... html_elements -> html_elements.default -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'Goodreader-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> search_goodreads("parenting", search_in = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in read_xml.raw(raw, encoding = encoding, base_url = base_url, as_html = as_html,  : 
  Failed to parse text
Calls: search_goodreads -> scrape_page -> <Anonymous> -> read_html.default
Execution halted

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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 13, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘Goodreader-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: search_goodreads
> ### Title: Search Goodreads
> ### Aliases: search_goodreads
> 
> ### ** Examples
...[truncated]...
 = "title", num_books = 2)
Error in UseMethod("xml_find_all") : 
  no applicable method for 'xml_find_all' applied to an object of class "xml_document"
Calls: search_goodreads ... html_elements -> html_elements.default -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies cld2 dplyr ggplot2 httr lubridate magrittr purrr rvest rlang stringr tidyr tidytext tm topicmodels wordcloud2 Goodreader

Version History

new 0.1.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Oct 23, 2024
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Aug 29, 2024
new 0.1.0 Aug 26, 2024