I am learning to scrape on website "https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search/physicians?firstname=&lastname=&city=&state=&zip=&country=&specialty="
data to build a database.
Under most cases, I have tried using rvest, XML, Rcurl packages and method html_nodes and XPATH to retrieve the data but however, I could not able scrape the list of Physician name, Specialty, Primary Address from the specified url.
R Code:
url <-"https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search/physicians?firstname=&lastname=&city=&state=&zip=&country=&specialty="
webpage<-read_html(url)
data_html <- html_nodes(webpage ,".a div")
data <-html_text(data_html)
# I used CSS selector gadget for finding html_nodes
[Refrence - Screenshot of the CSS selector been used in the image]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZKaFM.png
data_html <- html_nodes(webpage ,".a div")
The above code returns that data_html is list of 0
Please guide how to scrape the list of doctors name from the specified url.
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I am scraping data from this website and for some reason, I'm unable to get the name of the seller, even though I use the exact node returned by SelectorGadget. I have, however, managed to get all the other data with Rvest.
I managed to scrape the seller's name with RSelenium but that takes too much time. Anyway, here's the link of the page I'm scraping:
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-fitness-personal-trainer/bedford/swimming-lessons/1421292946
Here's the code I've used
SellerName <-
read_html("https://kijiji.ca/v-fitness-personal-trainer/bedford/swimming-lessons/1421292946") %>%
html_nodes(".link-4200870613") %>%
html_text()
You can regex out the seller name easily from the return as it is contained in a script tag (presumably loaded from here when browser is able to run javascript - which rvest does not.)
library(rvest)
library(magrittr)
library(stringr)
p <- read_html('https://www.kijiji.ca/v-fitness-personal-trainer/bedford/swimming-lessons/1421292946') %>% html_text()
seller_name <- str_match_all(p,'"sellerName":"(.*?)"')[[1]][,2][1]
print(seller_name)
Regex:
I want to automatically download all the whitepapers from this website: https://icobench.com/ico, when you choose to enter each ICO's webpage, there's a whitepaper tab to click, which will take you to the pdf preview screen, I want to retrieve the pdf url from the css script by using rvest, but nothing comes back after I tried multiple input on the nodes
A example of one ico's css inspect:
embed id="plugin" type="application/x-google-chrome-pdf"
src="https://www.ideafex.com/docs/IdeaFeX_twp_v1.1.pdf"
stream-url="chrome-extension://mhjfbmdgcfjbbpaeojofohoefgiehjai/9ca6571a-509f-4924-83ef-5ac83e431a37"
headers="content-length: 2629762
content-type: application/pdf
I've tried something like the following:
library(rvest)
url <- "https://icobench.com/ico"
url <- str_c(url, '/hygh')
webpage <- read_html(url)
Item_html <- html_nodes(webpage, "content embed#plugin")
Item <- html_attr(Item_html, "src")
or
Item <- html_text(Item_html)
Item
But nothing comes back, anybody can help?
From above example, I'm expecting to retrieve the embedded url to the ico's official website for pdf whitepapers, eg: https://www.ideafex.com/docs/IdeaFeX_twp_v1.1.pdf
But as it's google chrome plugin, it's not being retrieved by the rvest package, any ideas?
A possible solution:
Using your example I would change the selector to combine, using descendant combinator, id with attribute = value selector. This would target the whitepaper tab by id and the child link by href attribute value; using $ ends with operator to get the pdf.
library(rvest)
library(magrittr)
url <- "https://icobench.com/ico/hygh"
pdf_link <- read_html(url) %>% html_node(., "#whitepaper [href$=pdf]") %>% html_attr(., "href")
Faster option?
You could also target the object tag and its data attribute
pdf_link <- read_html(url) %>% html_node(., "#whitepaper object") %>% html_attr(., "data")
Explore which is fit for purpose across pages.
The latter is likely faster and seems to be used across the few sites I checked.
Solution for all icos:
You could put this in a function that receives an url as input (the url of each ico); the function would return the pdf url, or some other specified value if no url found/css selector fails to match. You'd need to add some handling for that scenario. Then call that function over a loop of all ico urls.
I'm learning how to scrape information from websites using httr and XML in R. I'm getting it to work just fine for websites with just a few tables, but can't figure it out for websites with several tables. Using the following page from pro-football-reference as an example: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201609110atl.htm
# To get just the boxscore by quarter, which is the first table:
URL = "https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201609080den.htm"
URL = GET(URL)
SnapTable = readHTMLTable(rawToChar(URL$content), stringAsFactors=F)[[1]]
# Return the number of tables:
AllTables = readHTMLTable(rawToChar(URL$content), stringAsFactors=F)
length(AllTables)
[1] 2
So I'm able to scrape info, but for some reason I can only capture the top two tables out of the 20+ on the page. For practice, I'm trying to get the "Starters" tables and the "Officials" tables.
Is my inability to get the other tables a matter of the website's setup or incorrect code?
If it comes down to web scraping in R make intensive use of the package rvest.
While managing to get the html is just about fine - rvest makes use of css selectors - SelectorGadget helps finding a pattern in styling for a particular table which is hopefully unique. Therefore you can extract exactly the tables you are looking for instead of coincidence
To get you started - read the vignette on rvest for more detailed information.
#install.packages("rvest")
library(rvest)
library(magrittr)
# Store web url
fb_url = "https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201609080den.htm"
linescore = fb_url %>%
read_html() %>%
html_node(xpath = '//*[#id="content"]/div[3]/table') %>%
html_table()
Hope this helps.
I am trying to scrape data from this page:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/tournaments/brisbane-international-presented-by-suncorp/339/2016/match-stats/r975/f324/match-stats?
If I try to scrape the name of the players using the css selector and the usual rvest syntax:
names <- read_html("http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/tournaments/brisbane-international-presented-by-suncorp/339/2016/match-stats/r975/f324/match-stats?") %>%
html_nodes(".scoring-player-name") %>% sapply(html_text)
everything goes well.
Unfortunately if I try to scrape the statistics below (first serve pts won, ..)
using the selector .stat-breakdown span I am not able to retrieve any data.
I know rvest is generally not recommended to scrape pages created dynamically, however I don't understand why some data are scraped and some not.
I don't use Rvest. If you follow the code below you should get to the format which is in the picture basically a string which you could transform to dataframe based on separators :, .
This Tag also contains more information than it was displayed in UI of webpage.
I can try also RSelenium but need to get my other PC. So I would let you know if RSelenium worked for me.
library(XML)
library(RCurl)
library(stringr)
url<-"http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/tournaments/brisbane-international-presented-by-suncorp/339/2016/match-stats/r975/f324/match-stats?"
url2<-getURL(url)
parsed<-htmlParse(url2)
# get messi data from tag
step1<-xpathSApply(parsed,"//script[#id='matchStatsData']",xmlValue)
# removing some unwanted characters
step2<-str_replace_all(step1,"\r\n","")
step3<-str_replace_all(step2,"\t","")
step4<-str_replace_all(step3,"[[{}]\"]","")
Output then is a string like this
I am a beginner in scraping data from website. It seems difficult for me to interpret the structure of html using XML or other packages.
Can anyone help me to download the data from this website?
http://wszw.hzs.mofcom.gov.cn/fecp/fem/corp/fem_cert_stat_view_list.jsp
It is about the investment from China. The character set is in Chinese.
What I've tried so far:
library("rvest")
url <- "http://wszw.hzs.mofcom.gov.cn/fecp/fem/corp/fem_cert_stat_view_list.jsp"
firm <- url %>%
html() %>%
html_nodes(xpath='//*[#id="Grid1MainLayer"]/table[1]') %>%
html_table()
firm <- firm[[1]] head(firm)
You can try with the function in the XML package called readHTMLTable that should download all the tables in the page and already format it into a data.frame.
library(XML)
all_tables = readHTMLTable("http://wszw.hzs.mofcom.gov.cn/fecp/fem/corp/fem_cert_stat_view_list.jsp")
Then since there is only one table in the page you linked it should be enough to get the first element so:
target_table = all_tables[[1]]