This is the code repository for R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.
Techniques and tools to crawl and scrape data from websites
Web scraping is a technique to extract data from websites. It simulates the behavior of a website user to turn the website itself into a web service to retrieve or introduce new data. This book gives you all you need to get started with scraping web pages using R programming.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Write and create regEX rules
- Write XPath rules to query your data
- Learn how web scraping methods work
- Use rvest to crawl web pages
- Store data retrieved from the web
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All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
<publisher> (root element node)
<author>J Olgun Aydin</author> (element node)
lang="en" (attribute node)
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for R programmers who want to get started quickly with web scraping, as well as data analysts who want to learn scraping using R. Basic knowledge of R is all you need to get started with this book.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 01-05).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-5 | R version 3.5.1 | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1-5 | R Studio Version 1.1.456 | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Olgun Aydin is a PhD candidate at the Department of Statistics at Mimar Sinan University, and is studying deep learning for his thesis. He also works as a data scientist. Olgun is familiar with big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Spark, and is a very big fan of R. He has already published academic papers about the application of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning. He loves statistics, and loves to investigate new methods and share his experience with other people.
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