Using R, I am trying to get the text (ideally, with some formatting) of a pdf embedded in html. THe url, as an example, is "https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad2/Handdowns/2024/10-October/10-02-2024_FINAL_HANDDOWN_LIST.pdf" using pdf_text doesn't work: > pdf_text <- pdf_text("https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad2/Handdowns/2024/10-October/10-02-2024_FINAL_HANDDOWN_LIST.pdf") Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : cannot…
I'm trying to automate web scraping using RSelenium in R. I've successfully located and clicked a button on a webpage using RSelenium, but I'm having trouble extracting href attributes from the page after the button click. I actually have a…
Can anyone give me a hand to figure out how to activate a chrome extension with RSelenium? Extensions are located in the tab of the browsers, but are not preloaded when using RSelenium.
I am trying to run RSelenium on an AWS but I am running into some errors (I previously had it working on a different AWS (no longer available)). I am getting the following error: > library(tidyverse) > library(RSelenium) > >…
Trying to convert a python project (that uses selenium to scrape twitter tweets without using the limited twitter api) into R programming. Works fine in Python but I want to recreate it in R. New to R but i have…