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In robertzk/amazonreviews: R package for grabbing Amazon reviews.

R Amazon Reviews

Note: This package is officially deprecated, Amazon has changed their format to generate random HTML and prevent scraping.

Fetch a data.frame of reviews for an Amazon product using R. To install from this Github, make sure you have the devtools package and run install_github('amazonreviews', 'robertzk').

Then you can fetch Amazon reviews by product ID:

revs <- fetch_amazon_reviews(1449316956); print(tail(revs[, 1:6]))

#    helpful_count helpful_total stars           author                                      title              date
# 19             1             1     3     Susan Donath Only buy this if you want to learn ggplot2 February 16, 2014
# 20             1             1     5 Grant Coble-Neal                                 Great book  February 2, 2014
# 21             1             1     5         jb in sd    Good & thorough resource for scientists November 30, 2013
# 22             1             1     5  Stefano Picozzi            Right content at the right time November 28, 2013
# 23             3             4     4     Luiz Marques                 Good Coverage of the topic  January 14, 2013
# 24            NA            NA     3        I. Vining       It's more for ggplot2 than regular R    March 11, 2014

robertzk/amazonreviews documentation built on May 27, 2019, 10:34 a.m.