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#' Scrape Images from a Web Page
#'
#' @param link the link of the web page
#' @param imgpath the path of the images. Defaults to the current directory
#' @param extn the extension of the image: png, jpeg ...
#' @param askRobot logical. Should the function ask the robots.txt if we're allowed or not to scrape the web page ? Default is FALSE.
#'
#' @return Images
#'
#' @examples \dontrun{
#'
#' images_scrap(link = "https://rstudio.com/", extn = "png")
#'
#' }
#'
#' @export
#' @importFrom rvest html_nodes html_attr %>%
#' @importFrom xml2 read_html
#' @importFrom robotstxt paths_allowed
#' @importFrom crayon green
#' @importFrom crayon bgRed
#' @importFrom curl has_internet
#' @importFrom utils download.file
images_scrap <- function(link,
imgpath = getwd(),
extn,
askRobot = FALSE) {
if (missing(link)) {
stop("'link' is a mandatory parameter")
}
if (missing(extn)) {
stop("You need to provide the extension of the required images:
jpg, png, jpeg, ...")
}
if (!is.character(link) ||
!is.character(imgpath)||
!is.character(extn)) {
stop("'link', 'imgpath' and 'extn' parameters must
be provided as character strings")
}
if (imgpath != getwd() && !dir.exists(imgpath)) {
stop("the path: ", imgpath, " doesn't seem to exist !")
}
if (grepl(x = extn, pattern = "\\.")) {
stop("No need to include the '.' in 'extn',
just provide the extension as it is")
}
###################### Ask robot related ##################################################
if (askRobot) {
if (paths_allowed(link) == TRUE) {
message(green("the robot.txt doesn't prohibit scraping this web page"))
} else {
message(bgRed(
"WARNING: the robot.txt doesn't allow scraping this web page"
))
}
}
##########################################################################################
tryCatch(
expr = {
img_urls <- lapply(link, function(url) {
url %>%
read_html() %>%
html_nodes("img") %>%
html_attr("src")
})
img_urls_unlist <- img_urls %>% unlist()
img_urls_f <- img_urls_unlist[grepl(pattern = paste0(".", extn),
x = img_urls_unlist,
ignore.case = FALSE)]
for (i in seq_along(img_urls_f)) {
download.file(img_urls_f[i],
destfile = basename(img_urls_f[i]),
mode = "wb")
}
},
error = function(cond) {
if (!has_internet()) {
message(paste0("Please check your internet connexion: ", cond))
return(NA)
} else if (grepl("current working directory", cond) ||
grepl("HTTP error 404", cond)) {
message(paste0("The URL doesn't seem to be a valid one: ", link))
message(paste0("Here the original error message: ", cond))
return(NA)
} else {
message(paste0("Undefined Error: ", cond))
return(NA)
}
}
)
}
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