add_recipe_step: Add a new single recipe step

In MarHai/ScrapeBotR: Orchestrate Instances and Retrieve Data from a ScrapeBot Database

Description

Adds a newly created recipe step to the database. See https://github.com/MarHai/ScrapeBot/blob/master/scrapebot/emulate.py for type descriptions.

Usage

add_recipe_step(
  connection,
  recipe_uid,
  type = "log",
  fixed_value = "",
  random_items = c(),
  use_data_item_instead_of_value = FALSE,
  active = TRUE,
  sort = NA_integer_
)

Arguments

connection	A connection object, as retrieved from connect_scrapebot().
recipe_uid	The uid (integer) of the corresponding recipe.
type	The type of what this step should do. Has to be one of the following as character string: click data element_screenshot execute_js find_by_class find_by_css find_by_id find_by_link find_by_link_partial find_by_name find_by_tag find_by_xpath get_attribute get_attributes get_element_count get_htmlsource get_pagetitle get_text get_texts get_value get_values go_back go_forward log navigate pause post_all_data post_previous_step_data random_select screenshot scroll_to sometimes_screenshot submit unset_prior_element write write_slowly
fixed_value	Possibly required value (depends on type); default is an empty character string.
random_items	Character vector to be used as urn to draw random items for fixed_value from.
use_data_item_instead_of_value	Logical indicating whether value should be taken from a previous data item. If TRUE, fixed_value needs to be set accordingly.
active	Boolean to indicate whether the recipe step should be active; default is TRUE.
sort	Numeric index to have steps be run one after another. If NA, new step is appended to the end.

Value

The uid (integer) of the newly created recipe step or an integer NA in case of error.

See Also

add_recipe(), get_recipes(), get_recipe_steps()

Examples

## Not run: 

connection <- connect('my_db on localhost')
recipe_uid <- add_recipe(connection, 'visit my website')
add_recipe_step(connection, recipe_uid, 'navigate', 'https://www.google.com/')
add_recipe_step(connection, recipe_uid, 'screenshot')
disconnect(connection)

## End(Not run)

MarHai/ScrapeBotR documentation built on March 10, 2021, 10:10 a.m.