Top 5 R web-scraping Projects

rvest

13 1,470 7.2 R

Simple web scraping for R

Project mention: Collecting Data from News Articles using Web Scraping - Help | /r/rstats | 2023-06-01

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r-web-scraping-cheat-sheet

1 378 0.0 R

Guide, reference and cheatsheet on web scraping using rvest, httr and Rselenium.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
GetOldTweets-R

1 18 0.0 R

A project written in R to get old tweets, it bypass some limitations of Twitter Official API.
parsel

1 15 4.4 R

parallel execution of RSelenium (by till-tietz)
pokemon-games-ratings

2 0 0.0 R

Dataset and visualizations of Pokemon Game Ratings, from scraping metacritic.com.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).