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html: Parse an HTML page.

Description

html is deprecated: please use read_html() instead.

Usage

html(x, ..., encoding = "")
## S3 method for class 'response':
read_xml(x, ..., encoding = "", as_html = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'session':
read_xml(x, ..., as_html = FALSE)

Arguments

x
A url, a local path, a string containing html, or a response from an httr request.
...
If x is a URL, additional arguments are passed on to GET().
encoding
Specify encoding of document. See iconvlist() for complete list. If you have problems determining the correct encoding, try stri_enc_detect
as_html
Optionally parse an xml file as if it's html.

Examples

Run this code
# From a url:
google <- read_html("http://google.com")
google %>% xml_structure()
google %>% html_nodes("div")

# From a string: (minimal html 5 document)
# http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2010/a-minimal-html5-document/
minimal <- read_html("<!doctype html>
  <meta charset=utf-8>
 <title>blah</title>
 <p>I'm the content")
minimal
minimal %>% xml_structure()

# From an httr request
google2 <- read_html(httr::GET("http://google.com"))

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