rvest (version 0.3.2)

jump_to: Navigate to a new url.

Description

jump_to() takes a url (either relative or absolute); follow_link takes an expression that refers to a link (an <a> tag) on the current page.

Usage

jump_to(x, url, ...)
follow_link(x, i, css, xpath, ...)

Arguments

x

A session.

url

A URL, either relative or absolute, to navigate to.

...

Any additional httr configs to apply to this request.

i

You can select with:

an integer

selects the ith link

a string

first link containing that text (case sensitive)

css

Nodes to select. Supply one of css or xpath depending on whether you want to use a css or xpath 1.0 selector.

xpath

Nodes to select. Supply one of css or xpath depending on whether you want to use a css or xpath 1.0 selector.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
s <- html_session("http://hadley.nz")
s <- s %>% follow_link("github")
s <- s %>% back()
s %>% follow_link("readr")
# }