Web-Scraping: the Basics
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Slides from the first session of my course about web scraping through R: Web scraping for the humanities and social sciencesWant to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Includes an introduction to the paste function, working with URLs, functions and loops.
Putting it all together we fetch data in JSON format about Wikipedia page views from http://stats.grok.se/
Solutions here:
Download the .Rpres file to use in Rstudio here
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