ralger
ralger makes it easy to scrape a website. Built on the shoulders of titans: rvest, xml2. (by feddelegrand7)
Rcrawler
An R web crawler and scraper (by salimk)
| ralger | Rcrawler | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 152 | 344 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.5 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | about 2 years ago | |
| R | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ralger
Posts with mentions or reviews of ralger.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Opinions on Automated Webscraping in R vs Python
For R webscraping, check out https://github.com/feddelegrand7/ralger which is available on CRAN and builds in rvest and xml2. It simplifies the scrapping process quite a lot. I use it quite regularly and works beautifully.
Rcrawler
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rcrawler.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Can R do recursive web crawling?
According to their GitHub page, it should be able to:
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increasing scraping speed
I'm not an R expert, but here are a few links about concurrent web scraping in R: RCurl, rvest + furrr, RCrawler.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ralger and Rcrawler you can also consider the following projects:
easystats - :milky_way: The R easystats-project
r-web-scraping-cheat-sheet - Guide, reference and cheatsheet on web scraping using rvest, httr and Rselenium.
sf - Simple Features for R
scrapingant-client-python - ScrapingAnt API client for Python.
crypto - Cryptocurrency Historical Market Data R Package
imdb - Web-scraping and data visualization of IMDb's most popular movies in 2018
polite - Be nice on the web
RedditExtractor - A minimalistic R wrapper for the Reddit API