tree2node: extract nodes from a html tree without having to write xpath!

In abelsonlive/scraply:

Description

extract nodes from a html tree without having to write xpath!

Usage

  tree2node(tree, select, children = NULL)

Arguments

tree	a html tree returned from url2tree
select	a css selector to navigate to, e.g. 'class="keyword"'. This can also be a node attribute, e.g. 'cellpadding="1"'. Make sure to include double quotes around the value associated with the class/id.
children	OPTIONAL subsequent children nodes to navigate to. e.g. "a", "ul/li/a" etc.

Value

a list of nodes matching the constructed xpath expression

Examples

# see example in the README

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