bow: Introduce yourself to the host

In polite: Be Nice on the Web

Introduce yourself to the host

Description

Introduce yourself to the host

Usage

bow(
  url,
  user_agent = "polite R package",
  delay = 5,
  times = 3,
  force = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

is.polite(x)

Arguments

url	URL
user_agent	character value passed to user agent string
delay	desired delay between scraping attempts. Final value will be the maximum of desired and mandated delay, as stipulated by robots.txt for relevant user agent
times	number of times to attempt scraping. Default is 3.
force	refresh all memoised functions. Clears up robotstxt and scrape caches. Default is FALSE
verbose	TRUE/FALSE
...	other curl parameters wrapped into httr::config function
x	object of class polite, session

Value

object of class polite, session

Examples

 library(polite)

 host <- "https://www.cheese.com"
 session <- bow(host)
 session

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