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rvest (version 0.3.1)

Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages

Description

Wrappers around the 'xml2' and 'httr' packages to make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.

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Install

install.packages('rvest')

Monthly Downloads

721,778

Version

0.3.1

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Hadley Wickham

Last Published

November 11th, 2015

Functions in rvest (0.3.1)

minimal_html

Generate a minimal html5 page.
html

Parse an HTML page.
html_table

Parse an html table into a data frame.
html_session

Simulate a session in an html browser.
set_values

Set values in a form.
html_text

Extract attributes, text and tag name from html.
pluck

Extract elements of a list by position.
google_form

Make link to google form given id
encoding

Guess and repair faulty character encoding.
html_tag

html_tag
xml

Work with xml.
html_form

Parse forms in a page.
session_history

History navigation tools
%>%

Pipe operator
jump_to

Navigate to a new url.
submit_form

Submit a form back to the server.
html_nodes

Select nodes from an HTML document