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rvest is a package for web scraping and parsing by Hadley Wickham inspired by Python's Beautiful Soup. It leverages Hadley's xml2 package's libxml2 bindings for HTML parsing. As part of the tidyverse, rvest is piped. It uses xml2::read_html to scrape the HTML of a webpage, which can then be sub...

I common problem encounter when scrapping a web is how to enter a userid and password to log into a web site. In this example which I created to track my answers posted here to stack overflow. The overall flow is to login, go to a web page collect information, add it a dataframe and then move to t...