scrape_one_group: Scrape one group

In healthforum: Scrape Patient Forum Data

Description

Get all the posts containing all the replies to those posts from one group by entering its url.

Usage

scrape_one_group(group_url, random_post_number = NULL,
  random_seed = NULL, ...)

Arguments

group_url	URL to the page to scrape.
random_post_number	The number of random posts to scrape. Default is NULL, which means scrape the total number of posts.
random_seed	A random number used to set the random seed to reproduce the work.
...	optional arguments to FUN.

Value

A data frame

Examples

## get the data of 5 random posts from the group "Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers"
group_url = "https://patient.info/forums/discuss/browse/angiotensin-ii-receptor-blockers-3037"
scrape_one_group(group_url = group_url, random_post_number = 5)

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