domainator

domainator wraps various APIs and provides lists to classify domains. This includes

APIs

webshrinker (commercial)
klazify (commercial)
whoisxmlapi (commercial)
linkpreview (commercial)

Lists

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.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7651047
https://osf.io/5pe27/

domainator is part of a series of R packages to analyse webtracking data:

webtrackR: preprocess raw webtracking data
domainator: classify domains
adaR: parse urls

Installation

You can install the development version of domainator like so:

#install.packages("remotes")
# remotes::install_github("schochastics/domainator")
install.packages("domainator", repos = c('https://schochastics.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Authentication

In all cases, you need to add API keys/secrets/tokens to the .Renviron file (for example using usethis::edit_r_environ())

Web Shrinker

Get the API Key and Secret from here.
Add SHRINKER_TOKEN="your-access-key:your-secret-key" to .Renviron

Klazify

Get the API Bearer token from here.
Add KLAZIFY_TOKEN="your-token" to .Renviron

whoisxmlapi

Get the API key from here.
Add WHOISXML_TOKEN="your-token" to .Renviron

linkpreview

Get the API key from here.
Add LINKPREVIEW_TOKEN="your-token" to .Renviron

Achknowledgement

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