Dipping my feet into the world of websraping using rvest. The first few examples are pulled from Alex Bradley’s and Richard James’ 2019 article.
Scrape a single page from the article’s practice website. There are three things I want to pull from the page:
header
image
text.
Then, put that information into a single data set.
library(rvest)
page_parse <- read_html("https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/example-1/")
headers <- html_nodes(page_parse, '.Title') %>%
html_text()
images <- html_nodes(page_parse, 'img') %>%
html_attr('src')
images <- images[1:3]
text <- html_nodes(page_parse, '.Content') %>%
html_text()
ex1_df <- data.frame(
'id' = c(1:3),
'headers' = c(headers),
'image_links' = c(images),
'text' = c(text)
)
ex1_df
id headers
1 1 New Neighbourhood watch.
2 2 Meeting your arch nemesis.
3 3 I am never walking in the rain again! EVER!
image_links
1 https://practicewebscrapingsite.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/3704529798_a4681d4533_z.jpg
2 https://practicewebscrapingsite.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/12881694475_54a639ca77_z.jpg
3 https://practicewebscrapingsite.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/7888404650_eedcd82822_z.jpg
text
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header
text
author
Get links
Initialize storage vectors
For each link, go there and pull out the header, text, and authors
for (i in links){
Sys.sleep(2)
page_i <- read_html(i)
head <- html_node(page_i, '.entry-title') %>% html_text()
tx <- html_node(page_i, '.Content , em') %>% html_text()
author <- html_node(page_i, '.Author em') %>% html_text()
heads <- c(heads, head)
txt <- c(txt, tx)
authors <- c(authors, author)
}
Data frame
df_ex2 <- data.frame(
'id' = c(1:length(heads)),
'page' = c(links),
'headers' = c(heads),
'text' = c(txt),
'authors' = c(authors)
)
head(df_ex2)
id
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
page
1 https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/walking-in-another-mans-shoes/
2 https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/younger-generation-taking-the-lead/
3 https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/how-many-times-your-tail-is-not-a-savoury-snack/
4 https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/early-morning-shopping-you-must-be-nuts/
5 https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/who-turned-the-heating-down/
headers
1 Walking in another man’s shoes.
2 Younger generation taking the lead.
3 How many times-your tail is not a savoury snack!
4 Early morning shopping. You must be nuts!
5 Who turned the heating DOWN?!?
text
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authors
1 Jon Doe
2 By Bob Wilder
3 By Ron Crumpet
4 By Walter Singsong
5 By Wilbert WondeWhat if I want to scrape the computational notes on my own website? I need a for-loop to iterate over each page, and I’d like to end up with a data set containing the following for each page:
title
the text content.
My website gets tripped up when it tries to scrape itself while rendering. So, I’ll post this example on github. Here is the link.
In the prior examples, I scraped text. What if I want to scrape a movie rating from IMDB?
# scrape the score for 'there will be blood'
movie_page <- read_html("https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1")
review <- html_nodes(movie_page, "strong span") %>%
html_text() %>%
as.numeric()
review
numeric(0)It would be great if I could create a vector of movie titles and then enter a command to impute a single title into the “search” menu on IMDB, but doing so is not straight forward in R. RSelenium is an option but I wasn’t able to figure it out. Here’s a link that uses it.
Bo\(^2\)m =)