Rcrawler: Web Crawler and Scraper

Performs parallel web crawling and web scraping. It is designed to crawl, parse and store web pages to produce data that can be directly used for analysis application. For details see Khalil and Fakir (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.softx.2017.04.004>.

Version: 0.1.9-1
Imports: httr, xml2, data.table, foreach, doParallel, parallel, selectr, webdriver, callr, jsonlite
Published: 2018-11-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Rcrawler
Author: Salim Khalil ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Salim Khalil <khalilsalim1 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/salimk/Rcrawler/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/salimk/Rcrawler/
NeedsCompilation: no
In views: WebTechnologies
CRAN checks: Rcrawler results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Rcrawler.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.zip, r-release: Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.zip, r-oldrel: Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tgz
Old sources: Rcrawler archive

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