archiveRetriever

0.4.1

Retrieve Archived Web Pages from the 'Internet Archive'

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

58.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Lukas IsermannFirst published 2021-03-1010 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Scraping content from archived web pages stored in the 'Internet Archive' (https://archive.org) using a systematic workflow. Get an overview of the mementos available from the respective homepage, retrieve the Urls and links of the page and finally scrape the content. The final output is stored in tibbles, which can be then easily used for further analysis.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("archiveRetriever", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("liserman/archiveRetriever")

Development version from liserman/archiveRetriever. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-archiveretriever

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-archiveRetriever

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-archiveRetriever

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 122.75

58.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,606 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,223 · ~14/day · ~416/mo

Releases R versions

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27130 days

95290 days

5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ liserman/archiveretriever

19Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

223Commits

4Contributors

223 commits · Last activity 2026-05-05 · +5.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-28 · 142026-07-07 · 19

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/liserman/archiveretriever on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

anytime dplyr ggplot2 gridExtra httr jsonlite lubridate rvest stringr tibble tidyrutilsxml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

vcr testthat webmockr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

YAML 139,093 (98%)R 2,352 (2%)Rd 166 (0%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 23.0 median / 62 max
Test cases: 89 / 122.75 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

58%

Expression

73.1%

Tests / Examples

58.4% / 0% ex

Functions

4 4 exported

Complexity

29.8 avg / 62 max

Call network

4 nodes / 0 edges

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Lowest coverage

4 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
archive_overview exp	11	23%
retrieve_urls exp	18	51%
scrape_urls exp	62	70%
retrieve_links exp	28	90%

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Lukas Isermann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Lukas Isermann

Author, Maintainer

Konstantin Gavras

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-10
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
Download size: 2.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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