rvest (version 0.3.1)

html_session: Simulate a session in an html browser.

Description

Simulate a session in an html browser.

Usage

html_session(url, ...)
is.session(x)

Arguments

url

Location to start session

...

Any additional httr config to use throughout session.

x

An object to test to see if it's a session.

Methods

A session object responds to a combination of httr and html methods: use cookies(), headers(), and status_code() to access properties of the request; and html_nodes to access the html.

Examples

# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15853204

s <- html_session("http://had.co.nz")
s %>% jump_to("thesis") %>% jump_to("/") %>% session_history()
s %>% jump_to("thesis") %>% back() %>% session_history()
s %>% follow_link(css = "p a")