xpathTextR: xpathTextR function

In NHSDataDictionaRy: NHS Data Dictionary Toolset for NHS Lookups

Description

Returns xpath text from websites and can be used to access specific HTML nodes

Usage

xpathTextR(url, xpath, ssl_needed = FALSE)

Arguments

url	The link for the website
xpath	The xpath string derived by using the Inspect functionality in a web browser.
ssl_needed	Default - FALSE - Boolean to indicate whether to need a SSL certificate

Value

A list with the results of scraping the specific xpath element

• result - the extracted text from the website element that has been scraped

• website_passed - a copy of the input url for the website

• html_node_result - returns the extracted html node result

• datetime_access - returns a timestamp of when the results of the scraping operation have been completed

• person_accessed - retrieves the system environment stored username and domain - this is concatenated together to form a mixed charatcer string

NHSDataDictionaRy documentation built on July 9, 2021, 5:08 p.m.