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R package that performs parallel web crawling and web scraping. It is designed to crawl, parse and store web pages to produce data that can be directly used for analysis application.

R package that performs parallel web crawling and web scraping. It is designed to crawl, parse and store web pages to produce data that can be directly used for analysis application.

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Rcrawler package: Rcrawler not crawling some websites

I'm using Rcrawler to crawl a vector of urls. For most of them it's working well, but every now and them one of them doesn't get crawled. At first I was only noticing this on https:// sites, which was addressed here. But I'm using version 0.1.7,…
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How do I scrape this text from a 2004 Wayback machine site/why is the code I'm running wrong?

note: I haven't asked a question here before, and am still not sure how to make this legible, so let me know of any confusion or tips on making this more readable I'm trying to download user information from the 2004/06 to 2004/09 Internet Archive…
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Rcrawler does not collect all pages

I want to crawl websites. To collect informations, about differnt podcasts. I am interested in Title, Date and Abstract of the show. My results are inclompete and with a lot of blanks. I tried multiple websites. Some are working, but most aren't.…
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Crawling Depth with BeautifulSoup

Is there a function within the beautifulsoup package that allows users to set crawling depth within a site? I am relatively new to Python but I have used Rcrawler in R before and Rcrawler provides 'MaxDepth' so the crawler will go within a certain…
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how do i avoid error in open.connection(x, "rb") : HTTP error 404 when webscraping with rvest

Here's the context of the problem I'm facing: I have 202 URLs stored in a vector and I'm trying to scrape information from them using a for loop. The URLs are basically every product that shows up within this website:…
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Web crawling in R through multiple URLs

I'm working on a web crawling project where I'd like to start at a main ulr here: https://law.justia.com/codes/ I'd like to ultimately end up with a list of urls that contains actual state code text. For example, if you go to the webpage above, you…
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RCrawler : way to limit number of pages that RCrawler collects? (not crawl depth)

I'm using RCrawler to crawl ~300 websites. The size of websites is quite diverse: some are small (dozen or so pages) and others are large (1000s pages per domain). To crawl the latter is very time-consuming, and - for my research purpose - the added…
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Rcrawler scrape does not yield pages

I'm using Rcrawler to extract the infobox of Wikipedia pages. I have a list of musicians and I'd like to extract their name, DOB, date of death, instruments, labels, etc. Then I'd like to create a dataframe of all artists in the list as rows and…
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Rcrawler - How to crawl account/password protected sites?

I am trying to crawl and scrape a website's tables. I have an account with the website, and I found out that Rcrawl could help me with getting parts of the table based on specific keywords, etc. The problem is that on the GitHub page there is no…
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How can we extract information from subdomain using Rcrawler in R?

I want to extract content of webpage from the subdomain using main URL. I tried using Rcrawler library(Rcrawler) Rcrawler(Website = "http://www.xbyte-technolabs.com/", no_cores = 4, no_conn = 4, ExtractCSSPat = c(".address")) After running this…
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Installing PhantomJS in R

I'm trying to install PhantomJS using the webshot package, SO I run the following on my machine: webshot::install_phantomjs(force = TRUE) At the end of the installation process I get the following: phantomjs has been installed to…
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Web scraping : Extracting of papers links

I would like to collect political papers from this newspaper website https://www.seneweb.com/news/politique/ . There isn't possibility to get the links of the older papers. The last one that shows up is for 2019. But the website is deeper than…
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Extract data URL with javascript (table in php)

I want to extract the data from this web page, http://old.emmsa.com.pe/emmsa_spv/rpEstadistica/rptVolPreciosDiarios.php, it uses java script at the moment I have not been able to find a way to extract the data of volume and prices of daily…
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Loop pages and crawler excel file path using rvest

For the entries from this link, I need to click each entry, then crawler url of excel file's path in the left bottom part of page: How could I achieve that using web scrapy packages in R such as rvest, etc.? Sincere thanks at…
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Web crawler and save with txt format using R

I would like to cralwer the poems and save with txt from this link, here is some hints: create folders with name of poet, save the poems with txt format by clicking poems in the red circle one by one, file name should be poem titles with extension…
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