04_scrape_pages.qmd

---
title: "Web scraping"
subtitle: "SICSS, 2022"
author: Christopher Barrie
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editor: visual
---

## Scraping webpages

```{r, eval = T, echo = F}
library(dplyr)
library(readr) 
library(stringr) 
library(rvest)
```

```{r, eval = F, echo = T}
#| code-line-numbers: "|6|8"

library(dplyr)
library(readr) 
library(stringr) 
library(rvest)

url <- "https://wayback.archive-it.org/2358/20120130161341/http://www.tahrirdocuments.org/2011/03/voice-of-the-revolution-3-page-2/"

html <- read_html(url)

```

## Getting page text

```{r, eval = F, echo = T}
#| code-line-numbers: "|2|3|4"

# identify relevant text
html %>%
  html_elements("p") %>%
  html_text(trim=TRUE)
```

## Getting page elements

```{r, eval = F, echo = T}
#| code-line-numbers: "|2|3|4"

# identify relevant text
html %>% 
  html_elements(".calendar") %>%
  html_text(trim=TRUE)
```

## Looping through urls

```{r, eval = F, echo = T}
#| code-line-numbers: "|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9"

pamlinks_all <- character(0)
for (i in seq_along(urlpages_all)) {
  url <- urlpages_all[i]
  html <- read_html(url)
  links <- html_elements(html, ".post , h2") %>%
    html_children() %>%
    html_attr("href") %>%
    na.omit() %>%
    `attributes<-`(NULL)
  pamlinks_all <- c(pamlinks_all, links)
}
```

## It's not always that easy...

![](images/gesslerscraping.png){fig-align="center"}