The development version of splashr now support authenticated connections to Splash API instances. Just specify user and pass on the initial splashr::splash() call to use your scraping setup a bit more safely. For those not familiar with splashr and/or Splash: the latter is a lightweight alternative to tools like Selenium and the former is an… Continue reading
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Digging into mbox details: A tale of tm & reticulate
✨ I had to processes a bunch of emails for a $DAYJOB task this week and my “default setting” is to use R for pretty much everything (this should come as no surprise). Treating mail as data is not an uncommon task and many R packages exist that can reach out and grab mail from… Continue reading
ggplot “Doodling” with HIBP Breaches
After reading this interesting analysis of “How Often Are Americans’ Accounts Breached?” by Gaurav Sood (which we need more of in cyber-land) I gave in to the impulse to do some gg-doodling with the “Have I Been Pwnd” JSON data he used. It’s just some basic data manipulation with some heavy ggplot2 styling customization, so… Continue reading
Two new Apache Drill UDFs for Processing UR[IL]s and Internet Domain Names
Continuing the blog’s UDF theme of late, there are two new UDF kids in town: drill-url-tools🔗 for slicing & dicing URI/URLs (just going to use ‘URL’ from now on in the post) drill-domain-tools🔗 for slicing & dicing internet domain names (IDNs). Now, if you’re an Apache Drill fanatic, you’re likely thinking “Hey hrbrmstr: don’t you… Continue reading
A new ‘boto3’ Amazon Athena client wrapper with dplyr async query support
A previous post explored how to deal with Amazon Athena queries asynchronously. The function presented is a beast, though it is on purpose (to provide options for folks). In reality, nobody really wants to use rJava wrappers much anymore and dealing with icky Python library calls directly just feels wrong, plus Python functions often return… Continue reading
Alleviating AWS Athena Aggravation with Asynchronous Assistance
I’ve blogged about how to use Amazon Athena with R before and if you are a regular Athena user, you’ve likely run into a situation where you prepare a dplyr chain, fire off a collect() and then wait. And, wait. And, wait. And, wait. Queries that take significant processing time or have large result sets… Continue reading
Visualizing macOS App Usage with a Little Help from osqueryr & mactheknife
Both my osqueryr and macthekinfe packages have had a few updates and I wanted to put together a fun example (it being Friday, and all) for what you can do with them. All my packages are now on GitHub and GitLab and I’ll be maintaining them on both so I can accommodate the comfort-level of… Continue reading
Freeing PDF Data to Account for the Unaccounted
I’ve mentioned @stiles before on the blog but for those new to my blatherings, Matt is a top-notch data journalist with the @latimes and currently stationed in South Korea. I can only imagine how much busier his life has gotten since that fateful, awful November 2016 Tuesday, but I’m truly glad his eyes, pen and… Continue reading