extract_links: Extract the links from text of a web page

In jefferis/gscraper: Basic web scraping - designed to generate local cache of remote website

Description

Extract the links from text of a web page

Usage

  extract_links(body, linktype = "href", regex = NULL,
    fixed = FALSE, rooturl = attr(body, "url"),
    absolute = TRUE, USE.NAMES = FALSE)

Arguments

body	Raw text of web page
linktype	class of link to find (e.g. href,src)
regex	Regular expression to filter links
fixed	Whether regular expression is fixed
rooturl	Base url for expansion of relative links
absolute	Whether to convert relative urls to absolute
USE.NAMES	Return relative links as names when absolute = FALSE

Details

The baseurl is normally just the original url (although a different url is sometime explicitly specified in the html body).

Value

character verctor of urls

Author(s)

jefferis

See Also

grep,getHTMLLinks

jefferis/gscraper documentation built on Oct. 25, 2020, 12:08 a.m.