Get Category from DMOZ

Fetches category (or categories) of content hosted by a domain according to DMOZ. The function checks if path to the DMOZ file is provided by the user. If not, it looks for dmoz_domain_cateory.csv in the working directory. It also returns results for prominent subdomains.

dmoz_cat(domains = NULL, use_file = NULL)

Arguments

domains

vector of domain names

use_file

path to the dmoz file, which can be downloaded using get_dmoz_data

Value

data.frame with the original list, the content category of the domain, and the vintage of the list that supplied it

Details

DMOZ closed in March 2017 and the snapshot shipped here is from 2015, so these labels describe the domain as it was a decade ago. The returned source_last_published column carries that vintage, and a warning is issued once per session. See source_vintage.

See also

source_vintage for the provenance of every category source

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
dmoz_cat(domains = "http://www.google.com")
dmoz_cat(domains = c("http://www.google.com", "http://plus.google.com"))
} # }