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R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Techniques and tools to crawl and scrape data from websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138733
Length 114 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Olgun Aydin Olgun Aydin
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Step-by-step web scraping with RSelenium

In this part, we are going to focus on collecting data from Instagram by using RSelenium. First of all, we are going to navigate the URL of the Instagram post, and collects comments and parses comments to detect users who put comments and users who are mentioned.

Collecting data with RSelenium

Let's start collecting data from Instagram by using the RSelenium library. First of all, we have to load the RSelenium library using the following command:

#loading libraries
library(RSelenium)

Now we load Selenium drivers and start Selenium. It may take time, so please wait till loading finishes:

#loading drivers and starting selenium
rD <- rsDriver()
remDr <- rD[["client&quot...
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