Brings the FT Search API to R.
You can install the package from GitHub with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("news-r/ft")Create a free account at developer.ft.com to create an API key.
ft_key("xxXXxxXx")Note that you can specify the FT_API_KEY key as an environment
variable in your .Renviron for convenience.
library(ft)
#> API key loaded!
# search 2 pages of articles "banks"
banks <- ft_search("banks", pages = 2)
# search titles of articles on "debates" and not Trump
debates <- ft_search("debates -Trump", curations = "ARTICLES", aspects = "title")
head(debates)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 5
#> aspectSet modelVersion id apiUrl title
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 article 1 d164166c-96… https://api.ft.co… Hunt tells Johnso…
#> 2 article 1 c173831e-96… https://api.ft.co… Mercosaurus hunti…
#> 3 article 1 3d28b29e-93… https://api.ft.co… Howard Marks fear…
#> 4 article 1 a7eff752-92… https://api.ft.co… Dance festival wr…
#> 5 article 1 85fc694c-92… https://api.ft.co… How Oxford univer…
#> 6 article 1 cebad0ac-93… https://api.ft.co… Sajid Javid knock…You can learn more about the possible curations, aspects, facets,
searchable, and sortable with ?discover which describes functions
that return vectors of valid filters.
ft_list_curations()
#> [1] "ARTICLES" "BLOGS" "PAGES" "PODCASTS" "VIDEOS"