paragraphs_scrap: Website text paragraph scraping

In ralger: Easy Web Scraping

Description

This function is used to scrape text paragraphs from a website.

Usage

paragraphs_scrap(
  link,
  contain = NULL,
  case_sensitive = FALSE,
  collapse = FALSE,
  askRobot = FALSE
)

Arguments

link	the link of the web page to scrape
contain	filter the paragraphs according to the character string provided.
case_sensitive	logical. Should the contain argument be case sensitive ? defaults to FALSE
collapse	if TRUE the paragraphs will be collapsed into one element and the contain argument ignored.
askRobot	logical. Should the function ask the robots.txt if we're allowed or not to scrap the web page ? Default is FALSE.

Value

a character vector.

Examples

# Extracting the paragraphs displayed on the health page of the New York Times

link     <- "https://www.nytimes.com/section/health"

paragraphs_scrap(link)

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