html_text: Extract attributes, text and tag name from html.
In Zyufei/Rstudy: Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Extract attributes, text and tag name from html.

html_text(x, trim = FALSE)

html_name(x)

html_children(x)

html_attrs(x)

html_attr(x, name, default = NA_character_)

`x`	A document, node, or node set.
`trim`	If `TRUE` will trim leading and trailing spaces.
`name`	Name of attribute to retrieve.
`default`	A string used as a default value when the attribute does not exist in every node.

html_attr, html_tag and html_text, a character vector; html_attrs, a list.

movie <- read_html("http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/")
cast <- html_nodes(movie, "#titleCast span.itemprop")
html_text(cast)
html_name(cast)
html_attrs(cast)
html_attr(cast, "class")