scrape_fls_data: Scrape data from Fugazi Live Series pages

In alexmitrani/Repeatr: Exploring the Fugazi Live Series

Scrape data from Fugazi Live Series pages

Description

A simple function to scrape data from the Fugazi Live Series website using rvest.

Usage

scrape_fls_data(
  mygiddata = NULL,
  mylimit = 3,
  sleepseconds = 1,
  mycsvfilename = "gid_fls_id_sound_quality.csv",
  my_data_html_element = "dd strong"
)

Arguments

mygiddata	Name of data frame containing list of gids to be scraped (optional). If this is not specified gids from othervariables will be used (1048 of them).
mylimit	The number of shows from which to scrape sound quality rating. Set to a low number for testing.
sleepseconds	seconds to wait before getting info from the next page.
mycsvfilename	filename for the CSV file to which the results will be written.
my_data_html_element	html element that contains the data to be scraped

Examples

scraped_data_1 <- scrape_fls_data(mygiddata = NULL, mylimit = 3, sleepseconds = 1, mycsvfilename = "gid_fls_id_sound_quality.csv", my_data_html_element = "dd strong")
scraped_data_2 <- scrape_fls_data(mygiddata = NULL, mylimit = 3, sleepseconds = 1, mycsvfilename = "gid_fls_id_played_with.csv", my_data_html_element = "dd:nth-child(10)")
mydf <- system.file("extdata", "gid_played_with_8.csv", package = "Repeatr")
scraped_data_3 <- scrape_fls_data(mygiddata = mydf, mylimit = 3, sleepseconds = 1, mycsvfilename = "gid_fls_id_played_with_8.csv", my_data_html_element = "dd:nth-child(8)")
mydf <- system.file("extdata", "gid_played_with_6.csv", package = "Repeatr")
scraped_data_4 <- scrape_fls_data(mygiddata = mydf, mylimit = 3, sleepseconds = 1, mycsvfilename = "gid_fls_id_played_with_6.csv", my_data_html_element = "dd:nth-child(6)")

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