Extracts both the party color(s) and logo URL from a political party's English Wikipedia page in a single call.
Arguments
- url
A character vector of Wikipedia URLs for political party pages.
- all_colors
Logical. If `FALSE` (default), returns only the primary color in the `color` column. If `TRUE`, adds an `all_colors` list-column.
- use_cache
Logical. If `TRUE` (default), looks up data in the bundled `party_data` dataset first before scraping Wikipedia. If `FALSE`, always scrapes live from Wikipedia. Using the cache is much faster and reduces load on Wikipedia servers.
Value
A tibble with columns: `url`, `color` (primary color as hex), `logo_url`, and optionally `all_colors` (list of all colors).
Details
By default, this function uses the bundled `party_data` dataset which contains pre-scraped data for major political parties. This provides instant lookups without network requests. If a party is not in the bundled data, the function automatically falls back to live Wikipedia scraping. Set `use_cache = FALSE` to always scrape fresh data from Wikipedia.
This function combines [get_party_color()] and [get_party_logo()] into a single call, which is more efficient when you need both pieces of information as it only fetches each Wikipedia page once.
Examples
# \donttest{
if (curl::has_internet()) {
# Fast lookup using bundled data (default)
urls <- c(
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany"
)
get_party_info(urls)
# Force live scraping for most recent data
get_party_info(urls, use_cache = FALSE)
# Include all colors
get_party_info(urls, all_colors = TRUE)
}
#> # A tibble: 3 × 4
#> url color logo_url all_colors
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list>
#> 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Uni… #333… https:/… <chr [1]>
#> 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(Uni… #E81… https:/… <chr [1]>
#> 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Par… #E30… https:/… <chr [1]>
# }