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Web Scraping in R

IntermedioNivel de habilidad

Actualizado 5/2025

Learn how to efficiently collect and download data from any website using R.

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Descripción del curso

Have you ever come across a website that displays a lot of data such as statistics, product reviews, or prices in a format that’s not data analysis-ready? Often, authorities and other data providers publish their data in neatly formatted tables. However, not all of these sites include a download button, but don’t despair. In this course, you’ll learn how to efficiently collect and download data from any website using R. You'll learn how to automate the scraping and parsing of Wikipedia using the rvest and httr packages. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll also expand your understanding of HTML and CSS, the building blocks of web pages, as you make your data harvesting workflows less error-prone and more efficient.

Prerrequisitos

Intermediate R Introduction to the Tidyverse

1

Introduction to HTML and Web Scraping

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Introduction to HTML

Read in HTML

Beware of syntax errors!

Navigating HTML

Select all children of a list

Parse hyperlinks into a data frame

Scrape your first table

The right order of table elements

Turn a table into a data frame with html_table()

2

Navigation and Selection with CSS

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Introduction to CSS

Select multiple HTML types

Order CSS selectors by the number of results

CSS classes and IDs

Identify the correct selector types

Leverage the uniqueness of IDs

Select the last child with a pseudo-class

CSS combinators

Select direct descendants with the child combinator

How many elements get returned?

Simply the best!

Not every sibling is the same

3

Advanced Selection with XPATH

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Introduction to XPATH

Find the correct CSS equivalent

Select by class and ID with XPATH

Use predicates to select nodes based on their children

XPATH functions and advanced predicates

Find a more elegant XPATH alternative

Get to know the position() function

Extract nodes based on the number of their children

The XPATH text() function

The shortcomings of html_table() with badly structured tables

Select directly from a parent element with XPATH's text()

Combine extracted data into a data frame

Scrape an element based on its text

4

Scraping Best Practices

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The nature of HTTP requests

Which of these statements about HTTP is false?

Do it the httr way

Houston, we got a 404!

Telling who you are with custom user agents

Check out your user agent

Add a custom user agent

How to be gentle and slow down your requests

Custom arguments for throttled functions

Apply throttling to a multi-page crawler

Recap: Web Scraping in R

Web Scraping in R

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