extract_text: extract text from xml nodes

In cutterkom/kabrutils: Utility functions for my projects

extract text from xml nodes

Description

When scraping data with rvest one will typically extract text from nodes. This functions helps doing so. It makes sure, that multiple p are parsed into one object. This is important, when parsing different-length items into one dataframe.

Usage

extract_text(node, class)

Arguments

node	node
class	css class to parse

Examples

## Not run: 
"https://forummuenchen.org/lgbtiq-chronik/" %>%
  read_html() %>%
  html_nodes(".timeline-item") %>%
  extract_text("p")

## End(Not run)

cutterkom/kabrutils documentation built on July 3, 2022, 4:04 p.m.