scrape_one_post: Scrape one initial post

In healthforum: Scrape Patient Forum Data

Description

Get the data from one initial post by entering its url

Usage

scrape_one_post(url, From = 1L, To = Inf, get_user_info = TRUE)

Arguments

url	URL to the post to scrape
From	The starting page number. Default is the first page
To	The ending page number. Default (Inf) is the last page (so all pages)
get_user_info	Get users' profile information. It includes the date of joining the forum and the total posts they have sent. The default is TRUE.

Value

A data frame

Examples

## get two pages of data from the post titled "Can Gastritis be cured?"
post_url = "https://patient.info/forums/discuss/can-gastritis-be-cured--613999"
scrape_one_post(url = post_url, From = 1, To = 2)

healthforum documentation built on Oct. 3, 2019, 9:04 a.m.