adstxt

Fraud is a major problem in online advertising. The ads.txt standard (PDF) allows publishers to add a layer of trust by publishing a list of all ad networks in which they participate. Publishers post a specially formatted text file to domain.com/ads.txt (for example nytimes.com/ads.txt, washingtonpost.com/ads.txt, etc). That file

Installation

This package is not available on CRAN. You can install the latest version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Breza/adstxt")

Usage

The function adstxt() is the heart of the package. Given a URL, it will return a tibble with data from the ads.txt file for that site. If no ads.txt file is found, it will return NA.

nyt <- adstxt("http://nytimes.com")

This project is under active development, so feel free to lend a hand! There's a Contributor Code of Conduct to help keep things civil.