polite

0.1.4

Be Nice on the Web

3packages depend

27.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dmytro PerepolkinFirst published 2019-11-304 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Be responsible when scraping data from websites by following polite principles: introduce yourself, ask for permission, take slowly and never ask twice.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("polite")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("dmi3kno/polite")

Development version from dmi3kno/polite. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-polite

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-polite

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-polite

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.16

not tracked

Coverage

92%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-17
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-12
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

27.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,278 · ~74/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

4K90 days

27.1K1 year

Also on204 r2u16 autocran886 conda_forge41 c2d4u

Source & community

GitHub ↗

Repository stars, issues, and contributor activity are not tracked yet.

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

httr magrittr memoise ratelimitr robotstxt rvest stats baseusethis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

dplyr testthat covr webmockr

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

3direct

–indirect (not tracked)

BAwiR zenstats crawlee

Code

1,054Lines of code

12Exported functions

Code & tests

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Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

21 10 exported

Complexity

3.4 avg / 15 max

Call network

21 nodes / 14 edges

Test coverage has not been measured for this package yet; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Dmytro Perepolkin iD

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

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

0.1.4Latest
2026-05-11 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3
2023-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.2
2022-08-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
2019-11-30

Package metadata

First published: 2019-11-30
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet