find_files: List all files with a certain extension from a URL

In AnthonyEbert/sawfish: See A Web File In Some HTML

Description

List all files with a certain extension from a URL

Usage

find_files(url, extension, absolute = TRUE)

Arguments

url	string of URL
extension	string of file extension required (without the dot)
absolute	logical should relative URLs be converted to absolute URLs?

Value

Character vector of URLs

Examples

aec_website <- "http://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/gis_datadownload.htm"
find_files(aec_website, "zip")
## Not run: 
find_files(aec_website, "zip")[c(1,2)] %>% download.files()

## End(Not run)

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