titles_scrap: Website title scraping

In feddelegrand7/ralger: Easy Web Scraping

Website title scraping

Description

This function is used to scrape titles (h1, h2 & h3 html tags) from a website. Useful for scraping daily electronic newspapers' titles.

Usage

titles_scrap(link, contain = NULL, case_sensitive = FALSE, askRobot = FALSE)

Arguments

link	the link of the web page to scrape
contain	filter the titles according to a character string provided.
case_sensitive	logical. Should the contain argument be case sensitive ? defaults to FALSE
askRobot	logical. Should the function ask the robots.txt if we're allowed or not to scrape the web page ? Default is FALSE

Value

a character vector

Examples

# Extracting the current titles of the New York Times

link     <- "https://www.nytimes.com/"

titles_scrap(link)

feddelegrand7/ralger documentation built on March 14, 2023, 12:44 a.m.