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ralgervshtmlquery

MIT 3 1 165
327 (month) Dec 22 2019 2.3.0(2021-03-18 00:10:00 ago)
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Feb 07 2019 58.1 thousand (month) v1.3.6(2026-03-06 04:46:15 ago)

ralger is a small web scraping framework for R based on rvest and xml2.

It's goal to simplify basic web scraping and it provides a convenient and easy to use API.

It offers functions for retrieving pages, parsing HTML using CSS selectors, automatic table parsing and auto link, title, image and paragraph extraction.

htmlquery is a Go library that allows you to parse and extract data from HTML documents using XPath expressions. It provides a simple and intuitive API for traversing and querying the HTML tree structure, and it is built on top of the popular Goquery library.

Example Use


```r library("ralger") url <- "http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021" # retrieve HTML and select elements using CSS selectors: best_uni <- scrap(link = url, node = "a span", clean = TRUE) head(best_uni, 5) #> [1] "Harvard University" #> [2] "Stanford University" #> [3] "University of Cambridge" #> [4] "Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)" #> [5] "University of California, Berkeley" # ralger can also parse HTML attributes attributes <- attribute_scrap( link = "https://ropensci.org/", node = "a", # the a tag attr = "class" # getting the class attribute ) head(attributes, 10) # NA values are a tags without a class attribute #> [1] "navbar-brand logo" "nav-link" NA #> [4] NA NA "nav-link" #> [7] NA "nav-link" NA #> [10] NA # # ralger can automatically scrape tables: data <- table_scrap(link ="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW") head(data) #> # A tibble: 6 × 4 #> Rank Title `Lifetime Gross` Year #> #> 1 1 Avatar $2,847,397,339 2009 #> 2 2 Avengers: Endgame $2,797,501,328 2019 #> 3 3 Titanic $2,201,647,264 1997 #> 4 4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $2,069,521,700 2015 #> 5 5 Avengers: Infinity War $2,048,359,754 2018 #> 6 6 Spider-Man: No Way Home $1,901,216,740 2021 ```
```go package main import ( "fmt" "log" "github.com/antchfx/htmlquery" ) func main() { // Parse the HTML string doc, err := htmlquery.Parse([]byte(`

Hello, World!

  • Item 1
  • Item 2
  • Item 3
`)) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } // Extract the text of the first

element h1 := htmlquery.FindOne(doc, "//h1") fmt.Println(htmlquery.InnerText(h1)) // "Hello, World!" // Extract the text of all
  • elements lis := htmlquery.Find(doc, "//li") for _, li := range lis { fmt.Println(htmlquery.InnerText(li)) } // "Item 1" // "Item 2" // "Item 3" } ```
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