get_species_links: Return all links on a species' ECOS page

In jacob-ogre/ecosscraper: Tools to Scrape the ECOS Website, http://ecos.fws.gov

Description

Return a data.frame with links (and anchor text) from a species' ECOS page.

Usage

get_species_links(url, clean = TRUE, pause = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

url	The URL of a species' page on ECOS or path to the HTML file
clean	Remove useless links (e.g., www.usa.gov) [default = TRUE]
pause	0.5-3 second pause to be nice to the server [default = TRUE]
verbose	Message the species being processed [default = TRUE]

Value

A data.frame with variables:

Scientific_Name

The species' scientific name, as given by ECOS

href

The link as given on the ECOS page, if available

link

The link, in absolute form, if available

text

The anchor text of the <a> tag, if available

Note

Either url or page must be specified.

See Also

remove_silly_links get_bulk_species_links

Examples

## Not run: 
  res <- get_species_url("Gila purpurea") %>% get_species_links()
  head(res)

## End(Not run)

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