This book is for R programmers looking to quickly get started with web scraping, as well as data analysts who want to learn about scraping using R. Some fundamental knowledge of R is all that is required to get started with this book.
R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide
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R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide
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Overview of this book
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.
You will learn about the rules of RegEx and Xpath, key components for scraping website data. We will show you web scraping techniques, methodologies, and frameworks. With this book's guidance, you will become comfortable with the tools to write and test RegEx and XPath rules.
We will focus on examples of dynamic websites for scraping data and how to implement the techniques learned. You will learn how to collect URLs and then create XPath rules for your first web scraping script using rvest library. From the data you collect, you will be able to calculate the statistics and create R plots to visualize them.
Finally, you will discover how to use Selenium drivers with R for more sophisticated scraping. You will create AWS instances and use R to connect a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS. By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently confident to create end-to-end web scraping systems using R.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Web Scraping
XML Path Language and Regular Expression Language
Web Scraping with rvest
Web Scraping with Rselenium
Storing Data and Creating Cronjob
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