`kobo_media_downloader` downloads media from data downloaded using `kobo_df_download`. Loops through media columns and downloads files individually.
Usage
kobo_media_downloader(
url = "eu.kobotoolbox.org",
uname,
pwd,
assetid,
fsep = ";",
sleep = 2,
identifier = "URL",
timeoutval = 300,
destfolder = "media"
)Arguments
- url
The `[url]` of kobotoolbox Default is "eu.kobotoolbox.org".
- uname
is username of your kobotoolbox account
- pwd
is the password of the account
- assetid
is the id of the asset for which the export is to be created
- fsep
is the separator of the downloaded csv file. In most of the cases, it is ";", which is the default. However,
- sleep
is the sleep time between API actions. For example, it takes time to download an export. But R does not wait for the download to finish before going to next step. Hence the need to provide a break between consecutive API actions. Default value is 2 (seconds).
- identifier
is the key using with the columns with URL is identified. Default value is "URL" because in most of the cases, the columns containing the URL values end with "URL". Please note that any other column name with similar value may cause error.
- timeoutval
is the timeout value in seconds to download the media files. Default is 300 seconds.
- destfolder
is the folder where the media is to be stored.