tidyverse/rvest

Simple web scraping for R

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This tool helps you gather specific information from websites, transforming raw web page content into structured data you can analyze. It takes a web page URL as input and allows you to extract text, links, or even entire data tables, outputting them in a clean, usable format. Market researchers, data journalists, and anyone needing to collect data from public websites will find this useful.

1,515 stars. No commits in the last 6 months.

Use this if you need to systematically pull specific pieces of information, like product prices, article headlines, or tabular data, from publicly accessible web pages for analysis.

Not ideal if you need to interact with websites by filling out forms, clicking buttons, or dealing with complex JavaScript-rendered content that changes frequently.

web-scraping data-extraction market-research content-aggregation data-journalism
Stale 6m No Package No Dependents
Maintenance 2 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 16 / 25
Community 25 / 25

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scraper

Last pushed

Sep 09, 2025

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