Preface

This book is for R programmers looking to quickly get started with web scraping. Some fundamental knowledge of R is required. This book will give you a quick, hands-on introduction to web scraping and how to use popular R libraries, such as rvest and RSelenium. Right from the initial environment setup to quickly scraping HTML web pages for useful information, this book will cover only the absolute fundamentals of web scraping without going into too much depth. By the end of the book, you will have the understanding that's necessary for scraping any web page using R programming.