start_splash: Start a Splash server Docker container

In splashr: Tools to Work with the 'Splash' 'JavaScript' Rendering and Scraping Service

Description

If using this in an automation context, you should consider adding a 'Sys.sleep(3)' (or higher) after starting the docker container.

Usage

start_splash(tag = "latest", container_name = "splashr",
  remove = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

tag	Splash Docker image tag to start
container_name	naem for the container. Defaults to "'splashr'".
remove	remove the Splash container instance after it's stopped? Defaults to 'FALSE'.
...	passed on to Splash instance launch parameters

Details

This uses the 'latest' image and passed the '–disable-browser-caches' parameter. If you do not want to use the 3.2.x+ versions of 'Splash' you should use your own startup scripts vs this helper function.

Value

'stevedore' container object

Note

you need Docker running on your system and have pulled the container with [install_splash] for this to work. You should save the resultant object for use in [stop_splash] otherwise you'll have to kill it from the command line interface.

See Also

Other splash_docker_helpers: install_splash, stop_splash

Examples

## Not run: 
install_splash()
splash_container <- start_splash()
stop_splash(splash_container)

## End(Not run)

splashr documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:22 p.m.