Retrieve BnF image metadata

Source: R/bi_metadata.R

Retrieve BnF image metadata

bi_metadata(identifier = NULL)

Arguments

identifier

[character(1)]
identifier of the document that begins with "ark:/"

Value

A nested list which contains the metadata of a single element. The list is for now not formatted and provide the full metadata returned by the API.

Details

By default bnfimage implements rate limitation through the ratelimitr package. The query are limited to a maximum of 1 every 3 seconds to avoid being blocked by the BnF server. This is the limit at which the BnF server considers the queries to be malicious. For the moment this limitation cannot be lifted.