{"id":6206,"date":"2017-08-29T17:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2018-03-10T07:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T12:54:26","slug":"new-cran-package-announcement-splashr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/08\/29\/new-cran-package-announcement-splashr\/","title":{"rendered":"New CRAN Package Announcement: splashr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hrbrmstr\/splashr\"><code>splashr<\/code><\/a> is now <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/splashr\/index.html\">on CRAN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/preview.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6210\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/08\/29\/new-cran-package-announcement-splashr\/preview\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/preview.png?fit=1024%2C810&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,810\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"preview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/preview.png?fit=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/preview.png?fit=510%2C403&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/preview.png?resize=510%2C403&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(That image was generated with <code>splashr::render_png(url = \"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/splashr\/\")<\/code>).<\/p>\n<p>The package is an R interface to the <a href=\"http:\/\/splash.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/\">Splash javascript rendering service<\/a>. It works in a similar fashion to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seleniumhq.org\/\">Selenium<\/a> but is fear more geared to web scraping and has quite a bit of power under the hood.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about <code>splashr<\/code> before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/02\/09\/diving-into-dynamic-website-content-with-splashr\/\">https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/02\/09\/diving-into-dynamic-website-content-with-splashr\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/02\/14\/spelunking-xhrs-xmlhttprequests-with-splashr\/\">https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/02\/14\/spelunking-xhrs-xmlhttprequests-with-splashr\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/08\/29\/rpad-domain-repurposed-to-deliver-creepy-and-potentially-malicious-content\/\">https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/08\/29\/rpad-domain-repurposed-to-deliver-creepy-and-potentially-malicious-content\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, the package comes with three vignettes that (hopefully) provide a solid introduction to using the web scraping framework.<\/p>\n<p>More features &#8212; including additional DSL functions &#8212; will be added in the coming months, but please kick the tyres and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hrbrmstr\/splashr\/issues\">file an issue<\/a> with problems or suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that splashr is now on CRAN. 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