pull all elements with specific name from a nested list

Question

I have some archived Slack data that I am trying to get some of key message properties. I\'d done this by stupidly flattening the entire list, getting a data.frame or tibble

Answer 1

Related to those provided by @Duck & @Abdessabour Mtk yesterday, purrr has a function map_depth() that will let you get a named attribute if you know its name and how deep it is in the hierarchy. REALLY useful when crawling this big nested lists, and is a simpler solution to the nested map() calls above.

purrr::map_depth(l, 2, "type")