Assignment - Web APIs

The New York Times web site provides a rich set of APIs, as described here: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs You’ll need to start by signing up for an API key. Your task is to choose one of the New York Times APIs, construct an interface in R to read in the JSON data, and transform it to an R dataframe.

## Loading required package: bitops
Key = "&api-key=3ac6f7195a6f43358b12f1993627b5a2"

url = "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v3/reviews.json?"

author='author=Haruki%20Murakami'

bookInfo <-getURL(paste0(url,author,Key))
book.jason<-fromJSON(bookInfo)
book.df<- data.frame(book.jason)
book.df
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##                                                               copyright
## 1  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 2  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 3  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 4  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 5  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 6  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 7  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 8  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 9  Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 10 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 11 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 12 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 13 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 14 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 15 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 16 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 17 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 18 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
## 19 Copyright (c) 2017 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.
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##                                                                                                                           results.url
## 1                                                         http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/books/1q84-by-haruki-murakami-review.html
## 2                     http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/books/books-of-the-times-an-obsessive-attraction-that-cripples-two-lives.html
## 3                                                                        http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/02/books/east-meets-west.html
## 4                                                          http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/28/books/as-japanese-as-burt-bacharach.html
## 5  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/1q84-by-haruki-murakami-translated-by-jay-rubin-and-philip-gabriel-book-review.html
## 6           http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/books/review/haruki-murakamis-colorless-tsukuru-tazaki-and-his-years-of-pilgrimage.html
## 7                                                                     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/books/review/Rafferty2.t.html
## 8                        http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/12/books/books-of-the-times-from-japan-big-macs-and-marlboros-in-stories.html
## 9                                  http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/03/books/books-of-the-times-looking-for-america-or-is-it-japan.html
## 10                        http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/31/books/books-of-the-times-on-a-nightmarish-trek-through-history-s-web.html
## 11                                                                          http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/24/books/rubber-souls.html
## 12                                                                         http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/books/lost-in-orbit.html
## 13                                                                 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/books/a-shock-to-the-system.html
## 14                    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/books/books-of-the-times-worlds-where-anything-normal-would-seem-bizarre.html
## 15                                                                      http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/books/and-bear-in-mind.html
## 16                                                                         http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Kirn-t.html
## 17                                                                         http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Dyer-t.html
## 18                                          http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/books/review/kafka-on-the-shore-realitys-culdesacs.html
## 19                                             https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/books/review/men-without-women-haruki-murakami.html
##    results.publication_dt    results.byline
## 1              2011-11-10      JANET MASLIN
## 2              1999-02-17 RICHARD BERNSTEIN
## 3              1997-11-02       JAMIE JAMES
## 4              1993-03-28     DAVID LEAVITT
## 5              2011-11-06    KATHRYN SCHULZ
## 6              2014-08-10       PATTI SMITH
## 7              2006-09-17 TERRENCE RAFFERTY
## 8              1993-05-12   HERBERT MITGANG
## 9              1994-01-03   HERBERT MITGANG
## 10             1997-10-31  MICHIKO KAKUTANI
## 11             2000-09-24  JANICE P. NIMURA
## 12             2001-06-10   DANIEL ZALEWSKI
## 13             2002-08-18        JEFF GILES
## 14             2002-08-20  MICHIKO KAKUTANI
## 15             2002-08-25                  
## 16             2007-06-03       WALTER KIRN
## 17             2008-08-10        GEOFF DYER
## 18             2005-02-06      LAURA MILLER
## 19             2017-05-09       JAY FIELDEN
##                                      results.book_title
## 1                                                  1Q84
## 2                  South of the Border, West of the Sun
## 3                                Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
## 4                           Elephant Vanishes : Stories
## 5                                                  1Q84
## 6  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
## 7     Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories
## 8                        The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
## 9                            Dance Dance Dance: A Novel
## 10                           The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
## 11                                       Norwegian Wood
## 12                                   Sputnik Sweetheart
## 13                                      After the Quake
## 14                                      After the Quake
## 15                                      After the Quake
## 16                                           After Dark
## 17          What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
## 18                                   Kafka on the Shore
## 19                           Men Without Women: Stories
##    results.book_author
## 1      Haruki Murakami
## 2      Haruki Murakami
## 3      Haruki Murakami
## 4      Haruki Murakami
## 5      Haruki Murakami
## 6      Haruki Murakami
## 7      Haruki Murakami
## 8      Haruki Murakami
## 9      Haruki Murakami
## 10     Haruki Murakami
## 11     Haruki Murakami
## 12     Haruki Murakami
## 13     Haruki Murakami
## 14     Haruki Murakami
## 15     Haruki Murakami
## 16     Haruki Murakami
## 17     Haruki Murakami
## 18     Haruki Murakami
## 19     Haruki Murakami
##                                                                                                                                         results.summary
## 1                                                   In <U+0093>1Q84,<U+0094> the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami writes about characters in a Tokyo with two moons.
## 2                                                                                                                                                      
## 3                                                                                                                                                      
## 4                                                                                                                                                      
## 5                                           Haruki Murakami has translated Raymond Chandler into Japanese, and there<U+0092>s a lot of Marlowe to his madness.
## 6  Patti Smith reviews Haruki Murakami<U+0092>s dreamlike new novel, in which a man seeks out old friends to understand why he was banished from their circle.
## 7                                                                                     A career-spanning grab bag of short stories from Haruki Murakami.
## 8                                                                                                                                                      
## 9                                                                                                                                                      
## 10                                                                                                                                                     
## 11                                                                                                                                                     
## 12                                                                                                                                                     
## 13                                                                                                                                                     
## 14                                                                                                                                                     
## 15                                                                                                                                                     
## 16                                                     Haruki Murakami<U+0092>s novel features two sisters, one in an enchanted sleep, the other up all night.
## 17                           In his latest book -- part training guide, part memoir -- Haruki Murakami connects the disciplines of running and writing.
## 18                                       <p> KAFKA ON THE SHORE By Haruki Murakami. Translated by Philip Gabriel. 436 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95.</p>.
## 19                  In the seven stories that make up <U+0093>Men Without Women,<U+0094> Haruki Murakami strikes a blue note: a rainy Tokyo full of unfaithful women.
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