I’m pleased to announce that splashr is now on CRAN.
(That image was generated with splashr::render_png(url = "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/splashr/")).
The package is an R interface to the Splash javascript rendering service. It works in a similar fashion to Selenium but is fear more geared to web scraping and has quite a bit of power under the hood.
I’ve blogged about splashr before:
- https://rud.is/b/2017/02/09/diving-into-dynamic-website-content-with-splashr/
- https://rud.is/b/2017/02/14/spelunking-xhrs-xmlhttprequests-with-splashr/
- https://rud.is/b/2017/08/29/rpad-domain-repurposed-to-deliver-creepy-and-potentially-malicious-content/
and, the package comes with three vignettes that (hopefully) provide a solid introduction to using the web scraping framework.
More features — including additional DSL functions — will be added in the coming months, but please kick the tyres and file an issue with problems or suggestions.
Many thanks to all who took it for a spin and provided suggestions and even more thanks to the CRAN team for a speedy onboarding.
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Would be interested in tutoring one on one using Splash? I am familiar with R, but have very basic knowledge in web scraping and feel that the information online is hard to find in one location. (Could not find any contact information).
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