##' Get Property Urls for Immobiliare
##'
##' This function gets the urls for each of the detailed, property listing
##' pages.
##'
##' @param numPages The number of pages which should be loaded (and 15 urls are
##' generally scraped per page). If numPages is more than the number of pages
##' available (likely something in the ~2000 range), this function ends at the
##' last one (with a warning).
##' @param type One of "vendita" or "affitto". Specifies which types of urls
##' should be scraped.
##'
##' @return A character vector containing the urls for all the individual
##' listings.
##'
##' @export
##'
getPropertyUrlsImmobiliare = function(numPages, type = "vendita"){
## Data Quality Checks
stopifnot(is.numeric(numPages))
stopifnot(type %in% c("vendita", "affitto"))
if(type == "vendita"){
base = "http://www.immobiliare.it/Roma/vendita_case-Roma.html"
} else if(type == "affitto"){
base = "http://www.immobiliare.it/Roma/affitti-Roma.html"
} else {
stop("Current type not yet implemented!")
}
listingPages = c()
errors = 0
totalPages = getNumPagesImmobiliare()
if(numPages > totalPages){
warning("Only ", totalPages, " pages available! numPages has been ",
"adjusted down.")
numPages = totalPages
}
for(i in 1:numPages){
fail = try({
## Make sure i is never in scientific notation
url = paste0(base, "?pag=", formatC(i, format = "f", digits = 0))
mainHtml <- read_html(url)
newPages = html_nodes(mainHtml, ".annuncio_title a")
newPages = sapply(newPages, html_attr, name = "href")
listingPages = c(listingPages, newPages)
})
if(is(fail, "try-error"))
errors = errors + 1
}
if(errors > 0)
warning("We had", errors, "errors on loading pages.")
return(listingPages)
}
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