scrapeBill: Downloading Bill HTML files from Congress Website
In gentok/congressbills: Extract and Manipulate Information of US Congress Bills
Description
Usage
Arguments
Value
See Also
Examples
Description
Downloading Bill Information from US Congress Website.
Usage
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scrapeBill(url, progress = TRUE)
Arguments
url
A character object of Bill Summary Page URL (e.g., https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/247)
progress
If TRUE(default), show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.
Value
A (or a list of) scrapeBill object(s) that contains two xml_document objects.
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info: contains meta information of the bill
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text: contains full texts of the bill
See Also
getBill, read_scrapeBill, and write_scrapeBill
Examples
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tgturl <- "https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/247"
bill247 <- scrapeBill(tgturl)
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Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples
Description
Downloading Bill Information from US Congress Website.
Usage
1 | scrapeBill(url, progress = TRUE)
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Arguments
url |
A |
progress |
If |
Value
A (or a list of) scrapeBill object(s) that contains two xml_document objects.
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info: contains meta information of the bill -
text: contains full texts of the bill
See Also
getBill, read_scrapeBill, and write_scrapeBill
Examples
1 2 | tgturl <- "https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/247"
bill247 <- scrapeBill(tgturl)
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