R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Olgun Aydin

ISBN 10: 1789138736 ISBN 13: 9781789138733

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Title

R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Publisher

Packt Publishing Limited

Publication Date

2018

Language

English

ISBN 10

1789138736

ISBN 13

9781789138733

Binding

PAP

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Synopsis

Web Scraping techniques are getting more popular, since data is as valuable as oil in 21st century. Through this book get some key knowledge about using XPath, regEX; web scraping libraries for R like rvest and RSelenium technologies.

Key Features

Techniques, tools and frameworks for web scraping with R
Scrape data effortlessly from a variety of websites
Learn how to selectively choose the data to scrape, and build your dataset

Book Description

Web scraping is a technique to extract data from websites. It simulates the behavior of a website user to turn the website itself into a web service to retrieve or introduce new data. This book gives you all you need to get started with scraping web pages using R programming.

You will learn about the rules of RegEx and Xpath, key components for scraping website data. We will show you web scraping techniques, methodologies, and frameworks. With this book's guidance, you will become comfortable with the tools to write and test RegEx and XPath rules.

We will focus on examples of dynamic websites for scraping data and how to implement the techniques learned. You will learn how to collect URLs and then create XPath rules for your first web scraping script using rvest library. From the data you collect, you will be able to calculate the statistics and create R plots to visualize them.

Finally, you will discover how to use Selenium drivers with R for more sophisticated scraping. You will create AWS instances and use R to connect a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS. By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently confident to create end-to-end web scraping systems using R.

What you will learn

Write and create regEX rules
Write XPath rules to query your data
Learn how web scraping methods work
Use rvest to crawl web pages
Store data retrieved from the web
Learn the key uses of Rselenium to scrape data

Who this book is for

This book is for R programmers who want to get started quickly with web scraping, as well as data analysts who want to learn scraping using R. Basic knowledge of R is all you need to get started with this book.

Introduction to Web Scraping
XML Path Language and Regular Expression Language
Web Scraping with rvest
Web Scraping with Rselenium
Storing Data and Creating Cronjob

About the Author

Olgun Aydin is a PhD candidate at the Department of Statistics at Mimar Sinan University, and is studying deep learning for his thesis. He also works as a data scientist.

Olgun is familiar with big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Spark, and is a very big fan of R. He has already published academic papers about the application of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning.

He loves statistics, and loves to investigate new methods and share his experience with other people.

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