Extract party logo URL from Wikipedia — get_party

Extracts the party logo image URL from a political party's English Wikipedia page. The function scrapes the party infobox for the logo image.

Usage

get_party_logo(url)

Arguments

url: A character vector of Wikipedia URLs for political party pages.

Value

A character vector of logo image URLs (or NA for failed extractions or pages without logos).

Details

The function looks for logo images in the Wikipedia infobox. The returned URL is typically a Wikimedia Commons thumbnail URL. Note that some party pages may not have logos, or the logo may be in a non-standard location.

The returned URLs point to image files hosted on Wikimedia servers. These can be used directly in R graphics or downloaded for further processing.

For use with `dplyr::mutate()`, this function is vectorized over the `url` argument.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Single party
get_party_logo("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)")

# Multiple parties
urls <- c(
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)",
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)"
)
get_party_logo(urls)

# Use with dplyr
library(dplyr)
parties <- tibble(
  party = c("Democrats", "Republicans"),
  wiki_url = urls
)
parties %>%
  mutate(logo_url = get_party_logo(wiki_url))
} # }