I’ve created a new package to interact with pinboard not to be confused with pinterest. I noticed there wasn’t a package yet and the API is fairly clear. So come and check it out {pinboardr} at https://github.com/RMHogervorst/pinboardr

I did see a new package to interact with pocket: pocketapi. Since pocket is also a kind of bookmark manager I thought there was a need for these kinds of packages. I will leave this package on github for a while, to figure out if I need to make changes and in a month or so I will push it to CRAN. Everyone who uses pinboard and R is invited to ‘kick the tyres’ as they say. Let me know if the docs are clear, if it is usable and useful for you.

What is pinboard?

Pinboard is a bookmark website. In stead of bookmarking on your own computer in the browser you can use pinboard. The service is very minimalistic and privacy focused. I use it all the time to put articles on my reading list, to archive tweets and to collect material for my secondary blog and for this blog.

Basic functionality

I added a more extensive readme, and all the functions are documented too. But in this short blogpost I wanted to show some examples.

With {pinboardr} you can see what you and other people used as tags for a page:

library(pinboardr)
caption <- "package {pinboardr}"
pb_posts_suggest(url="https://blog.rmhogervorst.nl/blog/2020/04/08/scraping-gdpr-fines/")

 tag popular recommended
1 Twitter FALSE TRUE

pb_posts_suggest("http://neverssl.com")

 tag popular recommended
1 ssl TRUE TRUE
2 wifi TRUE TRUE
3 public FALSE TRUE
4 Airport FALSE TRUE
5 captiveportal FALSE TRUE
6 coffee FALSE TRUE
7 connect FALSE TRUE
8 connection FALSE TRUE
9 help FALSE TRUE
10 IFTTT FALSE TRUE

Get recent bookmarks with a specific type

library(tidyverse)

recent <- pb_posts_recent(tags = "r",count=4)
names(recent)

[1] "href" "title" "description" "meta" "hash"
[6] "time" "public" "toread" "tags"

recent %>% select(title, tags)

 title
1 wttr.in/README.md at master · chubin/wttr.in
2 Automatic Code Cleaning in R with Rclean
3 \U0001f4fb Radio 538 playlist / afspeellijst van donderdag 13-06-2013
4 Dataviz and the 20th Anniversary of R, an Interview With Hadley Wickham
tags
1 package_idea r
2 r tools
3 blogidea r
4 visualisation r interview

Find out when you bookmarked things. (I think many bookmarks have the same date because I imported and exported from one tool to another)

dates <- pb_posts_dates()
dates %>%
mutate(dates= as.POSIXct(date)) %>%
ggplot(aes(dates, count)) +
geom_col()+
labs(title="bookmarks per date", caption=caption)

dates %>%
mutate(dates= as.POSIXct(date)) %>%
filter(dates > "2019-08-01") %>%
ggplot(aes(dates, count)) +
geom_col()+
labs(title="bookmarks per date", subtitle = "zoomed in", caption=caption)

So, see if you like it and check it out at github

Reproducibility

sessioninfo::session_info()

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tz Europe/Amsterdam
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