Package 'domainator'

Title: Classify Domains using Webservices and Lists
Description: Wraps various APIs and provides lists to classify domains. This includes...
Authors: David Schoch [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-4812>)
Maintainer: David Schoch <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 0.0.0.9000
Built: 2026-06-05 07:23:00 UTC
Source: https://github.com/schochastics/domainator

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Domain list classification of domains into news,portals, search, and social media

Description

Domain list classification of domains into news,portals, search, and social media

Usage

domain_list

Format

An object of class data.frame with 663 rows and 2 columns.

References

Stier, S., Mangold, F., Scharkow, M., & Breuer, J. (2022). Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries. American Political Science Review, 116(2), 768-774.

List All Web Shrinker Categories

Description

Returns all of the possible categories from webshrinker.com that URLs, hostnames, and IP addresses can be associated with.

Usage

get_categories_shrinker(taxonomy = "iabv1")

Arguments

taxonomy

character. Which category taxonomy to use, either "iabv1" or "webshrinker"

Value

list of categories

Examples

## Not run: 
get_categories_shrinker(taxonomy = "iabv1")

## End(Not run)

Klazify Category Lookup

Description

uses klazify.com to get the categories associated with the given URL.

Usage

get_url_category_klazify(url, raw = FALSE)

Arguments

url

character. URL to be categorized (needs https://www.)
raw

boolean. If TRUE returns the raw API response which contains more information than only the categories.

Value

data.frame with the inferred category and confidents score

Examples

## Not run: 
get_url_category_klazify("https://www.kicker.de")

## End(Not run)

linkpreviewer

Description

use linkpreview to get the description of a URL.

Usage

get_url_category_linkpreview(url)

Arguments

url

character. URL to be categorized

Value

data.frame with the title and description of a website

Examples

## Not run: 
get_url_category_linkpreview("https://www.google.com")

## End(Not run)

Webshrinker Category Lookup

Description

uses webshrinker.com to get the categories associated with the given URL, hostname, or IP address

Usage

get_url_category_shrinker(url, taxonomy = "iabv1")

Arguments

url

character. URL to be categorized (does not need https://www.)
taxonomy

character. Which category taxonomy to use, either "iabv1" or "webshrinker"

Value

data.frame with the inferred category and confidents score

Examples

## Not run: 
get_url_category_shrinker("kicker.de")

## End(Not run)

Whoisxml Category Lookup

Description

uses whoisxmlapi to get the categories associated with the given URL

Usage

get_url_category_whoisxml(url)

Arguments

url

character. URL to be categorized (doesnt need https://www.)

Value

data.frame with the inferred category and confidents score

Examples

## Not run: 
get_url_category_whoisxml("kicker.de")

## End(Not run)

News Types

Description

Classification of domains into different news types

Usage

news_types

Format

An object of class data.frame with 690 rows and 2 columns.

References

Stier, S., Mangold, F., Scharkow, M., & Breuer, J. (2022). Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries. American Political Science Review, 116(2), 768-774.

Domain list of online news

Description

Domain list of online news

Usage

online_news

Format

An object of class spec_tbl_df (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 542 rows and 2 columns.

References

Sebastian Stier, Nora Kirkizh, Caterina Froio, Ralph Schroeder. Populist attitudes and selective exposure to online news https://osf.io/5pe27

Domain list of us news contains a list of and information on 5,397 US news domains. The domains overwhelmingly represent US-based organizations, but since the list was partly sourced from browsing data, it also includes some international domains visited by US study participants.

Description

Domain list of us news contains a list of and information on 5,397 US news domains. The domains overwhelmingly represent US-based organizations, but since the list was partly sourced from browsing data, it also includes some international domains visited by US study participants.

Usage

us_news

Format

An object of class spec_tbl_df (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 5397 rows and 3 columns.

References

Clemm von Hohenberg, B., Menchen-Trevino, E., Casas, A., Wojcieszak, M. (2021). A list of over 5000 US news domains and their social media accounts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7651047