scrape-index: Helper functions for scraping index pages
In liao961120/pttR: Retrieve and Process Textual Data from PTT
Description
Usage
Arguments
Value
See Also
Description
These are helper functions for package development, not
written in man page index but available to advanced
users.
get_index_url finds out the newest index page
of a board. It takes a board's URL (e.g.
https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/index.html)
as input and returns a character vector of length 2.
get_index_info takes a board's index URL
as input and extract the content of the page into
a data frame with 6 variables.
Usage
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get_index_url(board_url)
get_index_info(board_url)
Arguments
board_url
Character. A board's index page URL.
Value
get_index_url returns a char vector of
length 2. The first element is a number,
and the second is a URL.
get_index_info returns a data frame
with n rows and 6 variables, where n is the number
of post links on an index page.
See Also
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Description Usage Arguments Value See Also
Description
These are helper functions for package development, not written in man page index but available to advanced users.
get_index_url finds out the newest index page
of a board. It takes a board's URL (e.g.
https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/index.html)
as input and returns a character vector of length 2.
get_index_info takes a board's index URL
as input and extract the content of the page into
a data frame with 6 variables.
Usage
1 2 3 | get_index_url(board_url)
get_index_info(board_url)
|
Arguments
board_url |
Character. A board's index page URL. |
Value
get_index_url returns a char vector of
length 2. The first element is a number,
and the second is a URL.
get_index_info returns a data frame
with n rows and 6 variables, where n is the number
of post links on an index page.
See Also
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