Hi, All:
????? What would you suggest one use to read the data on members of the
US Congress and their positions on net neutrality from
"https://www.battleforthenet.com/scoreboard" into R?
????? I found recommendations for the "rvest" package to "Easily
Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages".? I tried the following:
URL <- 'https://www.battleforthenet.com/scoreboard/'
library(rvest)
Bftn <- read_html(URL)
str(Bftn)
List of 2
?$ node:<externalptr>
?$ doc :<externalptr>
?- attr(*, "class")= chr [1:2] "xml_document"
"xml_node"
?????? However, I don't know what to do with <externalptr>.
????? The "Selectorgadget" vignette with rvest suggested selecting
what
I wanted on the web page and pasting that as an argument into
"html_node".? This led me to try the following:
Bftn_nodes <- html_nodes(Bftn,
??? '.psb-unknown , #house, #senate, #senate p')
str(Bftn_nodes)
List of 4
?$ :List of 2
? ..$ node:<externalptr>
? ..$ doc :<externalptr>
? ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "xml_node"
?$ :List of 2
? ..$ node:<externalptr>
? ..$ doc :<externalptr>
? ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "xml_node"
?$ :List of 2
? ..$ node:<externalptr>
? ..$ doc :<externalptr>
? ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "xml_node"
?$ :List of 2
? ..$ node:<externalptr>
? ..$ doc :<externalptr>
? ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "xml_node"
?- attr(*, "class")= chr "xml_nodeset"
????? This seems like it may be progress, but I'm still confused on
what to do next.? Or maybe I should be using a different package? Or
posting this question to someplace else like StackOverflow.com?
????? Thanks,
????? Spencer Graves
