Extract title, URLs, unique identifiers and date of release of press releases from the Department of Health website

get_doh_links(base = "https://www.doh.gov.ph/press-releases", pages = 1:25)

Arguments

base	Base URL for press releases in the Department of Health website. Default is https://www.doh.gov.ph/press-releases
pages	A vector of page numbers corresponding to the page panel containing the press release link. Default is 1:25. Press releases only go up to page 25. Values higher than 25 will error.

Value

A tibble of 4 columns: 1) absolute URLs of press release; 2) press release title; 3) press release unique identifier; and, 4) date of press release.

Examples

## Get press release URLs for first page of press release panel. The base
## argument has been specified using non-SSL version of base URL to prevent
## erroring for those with proxy server connections (i.e., in Travis tests)
get_doh_links(base = "http://www.doh.gov.ph/press-releases",
              pages = 1)
#> # A tibble: 15 x 6
#>       id title                   date       source type   url                   
#>    <dbl> <chr>                   <date>     <chr>  <chr>  <chr>                 
#>  1  4158 "DOH TO DEPUTIZE MED G… 2020-05-19 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  2  4158 "DOH ENCOURAGES VIRTUA… 2020-05-18 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  3  1311 "Malasakit: panlaban n… 2020-05-16 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  4  5241 "EXPERTS RALLY BEHIND … 2020-05-14 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  5  5241 "GOVERNMENT OFFERS FUL… 2020-05-14 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  6  1452 "NEW QUARANTINE SITE I… 2020-05-13 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  7  1920 "STATEMENT ON DATA INT… 2020-05-13 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  8  8151 "HONORING NURSE’S DAY:… 2020-05-13 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#>  9  1911 "SAN JUAN CITY THANKS … 2020-05-13 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#> 10  1421 "ADB-Sponsored COVID-1… 2020-05-10 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#> 11  5317 "ECQ Buys PH Time; Con… 2020-05-09 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#> 12  2977 "BIGGEST MEGA SWABBING… 2020-05-08 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#> 13  4211 "DUQUE THANKS NAVY FRO… 2020-05-07 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#> 14  2018 "PH GOV’T RECEIVES 7 M… 2020-05-07 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…
#> 15  2525 "BEYOND\tNUMBERS:\tWHA… 2020-05-07 DOH    press… http://www.doh.gov.ph…