chemidplus_parsing_functions: ChemiDPlus Parsing Functions
In meerapatelmd/skyscraper: Scrape Clinical Drug Data

Description Arguments No Records Single Hit Multiple Hits

There are 2 HTML responses involved in ChemiDPlus scraping. The first HTML response is associated with the concept search while the second is for the 1 to 5 Registry Numbers and their URLs if records were found. The ChemiDPlus parsing functions delineate the response into 3 groups: searches the resulted in no records, a single record, or multiple records (currently limited to parsing a maximum of 5 records).

response

"xml_document" "xml_node" class object returned by calling xml2::read_html on the rn_url

If the ChemiDPlus search url response contained the phrase "The following query produced no records:", it is marked as not having any records.

If a ChemiDPlus search results in a single match, the URL returned is the RN URL itself that is derived from the "h1" HTML node. For multiple matches, the "h1" HTML node returns blank.

If a ChemiDPlus search has multiple possible matches, the landing page where the first 5 matches are listed is scraped for each of their RNs.

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