zenstats

A Zenodo deposit contains some statistics of interest, like the number of views and downloads, that is not available to programmaticaly access through its API. The zenstats package scraps deposit webpages and return the deposits statistics as a tibble.

Installation

You can install the stable release from CRAN.

install.packages("zenstats")
library(zenstats)

Or install the development version of from GitHub:

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

Example

library(zenstats)

ids <- c(10036212, 10947952)

deposit_stats(ids, all_versions_only = TRUE, progress = FALSE)
#> # A tibble: 2 × 5
#>   date                 deposit views downloads  volume
#>   <dttm>                 <dbl> <dbl>     <dbl>   <byt>
#> 1 2024-06-03 09:53:43 10036212   564       344 1.50 TB
#> 2 2024-06-03 09:53:53 10947952    94        44 1.90 GB

Polite webpage crawling

This package respects the ‘robots.txt’ policies from Zenodo, including the crawl delay of 10 seconds.