R Observatory: Metrics for archiveRetriever version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

archiveRetriever

0.4.1

Retrieve Archived Web Pages from the 'Internet Archive'

0packages depend

4.6Kdownloads / 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

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,445 · ~13/day · ~382/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21830 days

86090 days

4.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on135 r2u46 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ liserman/archiveretriever

19Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

223Commits

4Contributors

223 commits · Last activity 2026-05-05 · 0% 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 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

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

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Lukas Isermann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Lukas Isermann

Author, Maintainer

Konstantin Gavras

Author

Package Timeline

10 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.1Latest
2025-10-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-06-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.1
2022-12-23 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2022-12-20 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2022-06-21 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2022-06-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
2022-03-03 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2021-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.2
2021-03-19 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2021-03-10

Show 1 earlier events

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("archiveRetriever")

Format

Isermann, L., & Gavras, K. (2025). archiveRetriever: Retrieve Archived Web Pages from the 'Internet Archive' (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.archiveRetriever

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for archiveRetriever version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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