R help - Jun 2018 - Unable to take correct Web-snapshot

Hi again,

I use the *webshot* package to take snapshot from Webpage. However, when I
try to take snapshot from* https://www.coinbase.com/
<https://www.coinbase.com/>*, this fails to take the full snapshot of that
page.

I tried following :
> library(webshot)
> webshot("https://www.coinbase.com/", 'aa.pdf')
However in the pdf page, I done see the quotes which are available on the
main page in the 4 boxes.

Any help how to resolve this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

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On 1 June 2018 at 15:08, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I use the *webshot* package to take snapshot from Webpage. However, when I
> try to take snapshot from* https://www.coinbase.com/
> <https://www.coinbase.com/>*, this fails to take the full snapshot of
that
> page.
Yes, that is a general problem with many webshot programs and libraries.

The coinbase page ( and many others ) uses a lot of javascript to generate their
pages and the webshot programs must understand javascript in all
details which is hard.

If you are looking for the coinbase prices you can use their api to
get json instead:

https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/spot?currency=USD

Regards
Martin

Thanks for that information.

However how can I use R to directly get data from that API?

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:36 PM Martin M?ller Skarbiniks Pedersen <
traxplayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 June 2018 at 15:08, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I use the *webshot* package to take snapshot from Webpage. However,
when
> I
> > try to take snapshot from* https://www.coinbase.com/
> > <https://www.coinbase.com/>*, this fails to take the full
snapshot of
> that
> > page.
>
> Yes, that is a general problem with many webshot programs and libraries.
>
> The coinbase page ( and many others ) uses a lot of javascript to generate
> their
> pages and the webshot programs must understand javascript in all
> details which is hard.
>
> If you are looking for the coinbase prices you can use their api to
> get json instead:
>
> https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/spot?currency=USD
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
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