Assignment

The New York Times web site provides a rich set of APIs, as described here: https://developer.nytimes.com/apis 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 into an R DataFrame.

Load the Packages

require(jsonlite)
require(dplyr)
require(kableExtra)

Input API Key

API-Key is Hidden

Add the URL

url<-"https://api.nytimes.com/svc/movies/v2/reviews/search.json?query=godfather&"

Here we put the API key and the link together.

movies<-fromJSON(paste0(url,moviekey))

Transform into a DataFrame

movies1<-as.data.frame(movies$results)

colnames(movies1)
##  [1] "display_title"    "mpaa_rating"      "critics_pick"    
##  [4] "byline"           "headline"         "summary_short"   
##  [7] "publication_date" "opening_date"     "date_updated"    
## [10] "link"             "multimedia"
movies1
##                              display_title mpaa_rating critics_pick
## 1                      The Black Godfather                        0
## 2  Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja           R            0
## 3                         Tokyo Godfathers       PG-13            1
## 4                  The Godfather, Part III           R            1
## 5                   The Godfather, Part II           R            1
## 6                      The Black Godfather           R            0
## 7                            The Godfather           R            1
## 8                         Three Godfathers                        0
## 9                      Miracle in the Sand                        0
## 10                     El Compadre Mendoza                        0
##             byline
## 1   BEN KENIGSBERG
## 2     RACHEL SALTZ
## 3      A. O. Scott
## 4     Janet Maslin
## 5    VINCENT CANBY
## 6       NORA SAYRE
## 7    Vincent Canby
## 8  BOSLEY CROWTHER
## 9           J.T.M.
## 10  Harry T. Smith
##                                                                    headline
## 1  ‘The Black Godfather’ Review: The Music Executive Who Made It All Happen
## 2                                             Adventures in the Drug Trades
## 3                     Three Down-and-Outs Rescue a Foundling From the Trash
## 4                                                GODFATHER PART III (MOVIE)
## 5                                           Godfather: Part II, The (Movie)
## 6                                              Black Godfather, The (Movie)
## 7                                                     THE GODFATHER (MOVIE)
## 8                                                          Three Godfathers
## 9                                                     Three Godfathers, The
## 10                                                     Compadre Mendoza, El
##                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 summary_short
## 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Reginald Hudlin’s documentary about Clarence Avant includes many golden anecdotes.
## 2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               “Square Grouper” is a documentary about pot smuggling in South Florida in the 1970s and ’80s.
## 3  Another marvel from Satoshi Kon, whose first two films, &quot;Perfect Blue&quot; and &quot;Millennium Actress,&quot; have already pushed Japanese feature-length animation toward greater realism and wilder fantasy. Loosely based on &quot;3 Godfathers,&quot; John Ford's maudlin 1948 western, this movie, a sweet fable of decency amid the down and out, also has echoes of Chaplin and Capra. Three homeless people — an embittered alcoholic, a middle-aged transvestite and a teenage runaway — find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. As they try to reunite the foundling with her parents, they revisit their own unhappy lives, and travel through a city rendered with unbelievable precision and tinted with undeniable love. The potentially sticky sentiments of the story are balanced by a crazily inventive narrative and by Mr. Kon's cool, obsessively detailed visual style. At the end, the skyscrapers of Tokyo wriggle and dance to a Japanese-language techno version of Beethoven's &quot;Ode to Joy,&quot; which pretty much sums up this indescribable, unforgettable movie. — A. O. Scott
## 4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Mafia heir trapped by legacy of past. Coppola's director's cut. Deeply moving.
## 5                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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## 7                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Puzo's Mafioso novel. Scalding and memorable.
## 8                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Outlaw trio and abandoned child. Typical, expert Ford western.
## 9                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Thieves reluctantly care for orphan. Tragic horse opera.
## 10                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Landowner survives Mexican Revolution by supporting both sides. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
##    publication_date opening_date        date_updated link.type
## 1        2019-06-06   2019-06-07 2019-06-14 16:44:01   article
## 2        2011-04-14   2011-04-15 2017-11-02 04:18:13   article
## 3        2004-01-16         <NA> 2017-11-02 04:16:23   article
## 4        1990-12-25   1990-12-25 2017-11-02 04:17:42   article
## 5        1974-12-13   1974-12-20 2017-11-02 04:17:27   article
## 6        1974-09-04         <NA> 2017-11-02 04:16:03   article
## 7        1972-03-16   1972-03-24 2017-11-02 04:17:26   article
## 8        1949-03-04   1948-12-01 2017-11-02 04:17:11   article
## 9        1936-03-09   1936-03-06 2017-11-02 04:16:58   article
## 10       1934-11-19   1934-11-18 2017-11-02 04:16:55   article
##                                                                                                                 link.url
## 1                                               http://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/movies/the-black-godfather-review.html
## 2                                              http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/movies/square-grouper-movie-review.html
## 3  http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/movies/film-review-three-down-outs-rescue-foundling-trash-anyone-have-pacifier.html
## 4   http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/movies/review-film-the-corleones-try-to-go-straight-in-the-godfather-part-iii.html
## 5                           http://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/13/archives/godfather-part-ii-is-hard-to-define-the-cast.html
## 6                         http://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/04/archives/screen-drug-traffickers-vie-in-black-godfather.html
## 7                                         http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1739E464BC4E52DFB5668389669EDE
## 8     http://www.nytimes.com/1949/03/04/archives/the-screen-in-review-john-wayne-harry-carey-jr-in-three-godfathers.html
## 9                                                          http://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/09/archives/at-the-rialto.html
## 10                                                     http://www.nytimes.com/1934/11/19/archives/a-mexican-tragedy.html
##                                                     link.suggested_link_text
## 1                      Read the New York Times Review of The Black Godfather
## 2  Read the New York Times Review of Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja
## 3                         Read the New York Times Review of Tokyo Godfathers
## 4                  Read the New York Times Review of The Godfather, Part III
## 5                   Read the New York Times Review of The Godfather, Part II
## 6                      Read the New York Times Review of The Black Godfather
## 7                            Read the New York Times Review of The Godfather
## 8                         Read the New York Times Review of Three Godfathers
## 9                      Read the New York Times Review of Miracle in the Sand
## 10                     Read the New York Times Review of El Compadre Mendoza
##        multimedia.type
## 1  mediumThreeByTwo210
## 2                 <NA>
## 3                 <NA>
## 4                 <NA>
## 5                 <NA>
## 6                 <NA>
## 7                 <NA>
## 8                 <NA>
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## 10                <NA>
##                                                                                             multimedia.src
## 1  https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/05/arts/blackgodfather1/blackgodfather1-mediumThreeByTwo210.jpg
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##    multimedia.width multimedia.height
## 1               210               140
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Remove Columns

movies2 <-movies1[c(1:2,4:7)]

Final Table

colnames(movies2)<-c("Title", "Rating","Actors","Headline","Summary","Pub_Date")

kable(movies2) %>%
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
Title Rating Actors Headline Summary Pub_Date
The Black Godfather BEN KENIGSBERG ‘The Black Godfather’ Review: The Music Executive Who Made It All Happen Reginald Hudlin’s documentary about Clarence Avant includes many golden anecdotes. 2019-06-06
Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja R RACHEL SALTZ Adventures in the Drug Trades “Square Grouper” is a documentary about pot smuggling in South Florida in the 1970s and ’80s. 2011-04-14
Tokyo Godfathers PG-13 A. O. Scott Three Down-and-Outs Rescue a Foundling From the Trash Another marvel from Satoshi Kon, whose first two films, &quot;Perfect Blue&quot; and &quot;Millennium Actress,&quot; have already pushed Japanese feature-length animation toward greater realism and wilder fantasy. Loosely based on &quot;3 Godfathers,&quot; John Ford’s maudlin 1948 western, this movie, a sweet fable of decency amid the down and out, also has echoes of Chaplin and Capra. Three homeless people — an embittered alcoholic, a middle-aged transvestite and a teenage runaway — find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. As they try to reunite the foundling with her parents, they revisit their own unhappy lives, and travel through a city rendered with unbelievable precision and tinted with undeniable love. The potentially sticky sentiments of the story are balanced by a crazily inventive narrative and by Mr. Kon’s cool, obsessively detailed visual style. At the end, the skyscrapers of Tokyo wriggle and dance to a Japanese-language techno version of Beethoven’s &quot;Ode to Joy,&quot; which pretty much sums up this indescribable, unforgettable movie. — A. O. Scott 2004-01-16
The Godfather, Part III R Janet Maslin GODFATHER PART III (MOVIE) Mafia heir trapped by legacy of past. Coppola’s director’s cut. Deeply moving. 1990-12-25
The Godfather, Part II R VINCENT CANBY Godfather: Part II, The (Movie) 1974-12-13
The Black Godfather R NORA SAYRE Black Godfather, The (Movie) 1974-09-04
The Godfather R Vincent Canby THE GODFATHER (MOVIE) Puzo’s Mafioso novel. Scalding and memorable. 1972-03-16
Three Godfathers BOSLEY CROWTHER Three Godfathers Outlaw trio and abandoned child. Typical, expert Ford western. 1949-03-04
Miracle in the Sand J.T.M. Three Godfathers, The Thieves reluctantly care for orphan. Tragic horse opera. 1936-03-09
El Compadre Mendoza Harry T. Smith Compadre Mendoza, El Landowner survives Mexican Revolution by supporting both sides. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes. 1934-11-19