attribute_scrap {ralger}

Scraping attributes from HTML elements

Description

This function is used to scrape attributes from HTML elements

Usage

attribute_scrap(link, node, attr, askRobot = FALSE)

Arguments

link

the link of the web page to scrape

node

the HTML element to consider

attr

the attribute to scrape

askRobot

logical. Should the function ask the robots.txt if we're allowed or not to scrape the web page ? Default is FALSE.

Value

a character vector.

Examples

# Extracting the web links within the World Bank research and publications page

link <- "https://ropensci.org/"

# scraping the class attributes' names from all the anchor

attribute_scrap(link = link, node = "a", attr = "class")