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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://rud.is/b/2017/08/29/new-cran-package-announcement-splashr/"> R – rud.is</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>I’m pleased to announce that <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/hrbrmstr/splashr" target="_blank"><code>splashr</code></a> is now <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=splashr" target="_blank">on CRAN</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i1.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/preview.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://i1.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/preview.png?resize=780%2C617&ssl=1" class="wp-image-6210" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>(That image was generated with <code>splashr::render_png(url = &quot;https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/splashr/&quot;)</code>).</p>
<p>The package is an R interface to the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://splash.readthedocs.io/en/stable/" target="_blank">Splash javascript rendering service</a>. It works in a similar fashion to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seleniumhq.org/" target="_blank">Selenium</a> but is fear more geared to web scraping and has quite a bit of power under the hood.</p>
<p>I’ve blogged about <code>splashr</code> before:</p>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://rud.is/b/2017/02/09/diving-into-dynamic-website-content-with-splashr/" target="_blank">https://rud.is/b/2017/02/09/diving-into-dynamic-website-content-with-splashr/</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://rud.is/b/2017/02/14/spelunking-xhrs-xmlhttprequests-with-splashr/" target="_blank">https://rud.is/b/2017/02/14/spelunking-xhrs-xmlhttprequests-with-splashr/</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://rud.is/b/2017/08/29/rpad-domain-repurposed-to-deliver-creepy-and-potentially-malicious-content/" target="_blank">https://rud.is/b/2017/08/29/rpad-domain-repurposed-to-deliver-creepy-and-potentially-malicious-content/</a></li>
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<p>and, the package comes with three vignettes that (hopefully) provide a solid introduction to using the web scraping framework.</p>
<p>More features — including additional DSL functions — will be added in the coming months, but please kick the tyres and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/hrbrmstr/splashr/issues" target="_blank">file an issue</a> with problems or suggestions.</p>
<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>
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