Downloads the historical Facebook or Instagram page info dataset for a given ISO2C country code.
The data is retrieved from a fixed GitHub release URL in .parquet format. It includes information on:
Page-level metadata (e.g., name, verification status, profile type)
Audience metrics (e.g., number of likes, Instagram followers)
Shared disclaimers (if applicable)
Page creation and name change events with timestamps
Contact and address information (if available)
Free-text descriptions ("about" section)
Usage
get_page_info_db(iso2c, verbose = TRUE)
Arguments
- iso2c
A string specifying the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., "DE", "FR", "US").
- verbose
Logical. If TRUE (default), prints a status message when downloading.
Value
A tibble containing Facebook page info for the specified country.
If the dataset is not available or cannot be retrieved, a tibble with no_data = TRUE
and the given iso2c code is returned.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
de_info <- get_page_info_db("DE")
fr_info <- get_page_info_db("FR")
} # }