Questions tagged [chromote]
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How to properly close a chromote session?
Using the Linux command top I see there are no processes named, "chrome".
Then I do:
library("chromote")
b <- ChromoteSession$new()
and see eight processes called chrome.
Now I close the window/tab:
b$close()
# [1] TRUE
but the eight processes…
ixodid
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webshot2::webshot() fails to take screenshot because of file system permissions
Running the below code will sometimes fail and return the attached error message.
webshot2::webshot(url = "~/a_web_page.html", file = "~/an_image.png")
Error in launch_chrome(path, args) :
Failed to start chrome. Error:…
Patrick
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Is there a way to create a warc from a dynamic website with chromote and another R library?
I would like to save a page rendered with headless chrome using chromote to a warc file.
Rendering the page works fine, but I am a bit stuck at saving it as a warc file.
First I wanted to use jwatr but due to some policies on our laptops this is not…
Lod
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Is it possible to include a JavaScript library with chromote?
With phantomJS one can include a JavaScript library by doing page.inject("thelibrary.js"). Is it possible with the chromote package? I didn't find anything in the doc.
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From chromote to rvest
With chromote, I should be able to obtain the HTML codes of a website like this (if I'm not mistaken):
library(chromote)
b <- ChromoteSession$new()
b$view()
b$Page$navigate("https://www.ooir.org/")
x <- b$DOM$getDocument()
Is it possible to then…
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Log in to website and download cookies using R package
I'd like to be able to login to a website and save the cookies to a file programmatically. I thought I might be able to do this with {webdriver}. While I can enter in an email and password, clicking the "Log In" button doesn't seem to do…
Giovanni Colitti
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