timelyportfolio / rvest

Simple web scraping for R

rvest

rvest helps you scrape information from web pages. It currently provides two main features:

• Select parts of a document using css selectors: doc[sel("table td")]

• Extract important components of html tags with html_tag(), html_text(), html_attr() and html_attrs().

• Parse tables into data frames with html_table().

• Extract, modify and submit forms with html_form(), set_values() and submit_form()

• Navigate around a website as if you're in a browser with html_session(), jump_to(), follow_link(), back(), forward(), submit_format() and so on.

Inspirations

• Python: Robobrowser