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postlightmercury

Parses Web Pages using Postlight Mercury

v1.2 · Jul 8, 2017 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

This is a wrapper for the Mercury Parser API. The Mercury Parser is a single API endpoint that takes a URL and gives you back the content reliably and easily. With just one API request, Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more — free from any clutter. It’s reliable, easy-to-use and free. See the webpage here: <https://mercury.postlight.com/>.

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Maintainer: ‘Mikkel Freltoft Krogsholm <mikkel@56n.dk>’

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  Authors@R: person(given = c("Mikkel", "Freltoft"),
                    family = "Krogsholm",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "mikkel@56n.dk")
as necessary.
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Maintainer: ‘Mikkel Freltoft Krogsholm <mikkel@56n.dk>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Mikkel", "Freltoft"),
                    family = "Krogsholm",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "mikkel@56n.dk")
as necessary.
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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies tibble crul purrr jsonlite rvest xml2 postlightmercury

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new 1.2 Mar 9, 2026