Web Scrape Text from ANY Website - Web Scraping in R (Part 1)

I got the webscrapping part down but the data.frame keeps showing up as an error.

I keep getting

Error in data.frame(name, year, rating, synopsis, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) :
arguments imply differing number of rows: 51, 50

Hello, great video! How do you scrape the next page.. etc to the end

First, great tutorial! Thank you. I had a problem creating the data frame because I have a different number of rows in some objects (45 or 50), so this is the reported error: Error in data.frame(name, year, rating, synopsis, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) :
arguments imply differing number of rows: 50, 45. Any suggestion on this? Thank you

is there any similar addons like SelectorGedget but in Firefox?

Awesome!

Awesome video, thanks for sharing! Is there a way to read in images? Thanks!

Such a great video 👏👏👏

Your data needs to be cleaned. Some years have “(I)” in front of them and your synopses have leading whitespace and new line characters.

What if you can't select individual data elements on the page?

Wow. Just got to know about SelectorGadget and I can say it is going to save me lots of time.

i love u.

Some of the information that I've tried this on is coming out as double in length. I'm trying to practice this more using data from one of my friends league of legends games. Using leagueofgraphs to get the data. For some reason when I try to get the .gameMode information, data seems to double itself. And when I try to get the outcome of the game, Victory/Defeat, it returns the information as either all Victories with 5 blanks or all defeats with 5 blanks. Does any one have any advice how to fix this problem?

Thank you! I’ve tried python and mostly failed but this tutorial worked!

Hi I'm trying to scrape the press release section of a company through this method only. However I'm getting 0 characters. Can you please help

I guess it doesn't work with JS pages :P

Thanks!! I follow your code here, but i does not work, I'm so neofit ... does this plataform allow scrapping? or maybe I made something wrong?

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Great video. Would this work if i want to get data off of a website say number of views and visitors of a website or organization site?

I don't comment often but this is so good quality content mate

Thank u very much! i learning to use R Studio, and its my first time in practice Web Scraping. I really so' happy :D

wow, this is so so cool

Very nice! However, on some pages the "read_html(link)" gets stuck in an infinite loop. Any idea why?

Where do you get read_html from?

lol at Lagaan being in the list, one of my favorite movies

hi great video, super useful. Are you able to do a video on scraping behind a login page ?

great video, been a SAS user for a while but really getting into R, your videos really help, thank you!

i never coded in R. this made it look so easy. Thank you!

tthanks! can you post how to clean the html file?

Great video! Thank you very much

I have a problem here.... it is displaying "character (0)" in the console when I run the code. What should I do?

Awesome content! Can you help me understand how to download a multi-sheet xlsx workbook from URL into R? It's only two tabs and I do know how to merge the tabs into a single dataframe once downloaded.

Excellent content! How can I download a multiple tab xlsx file into R from a URL. I know how to merge the tabs together once saved locally, but would like to read them in directly from URL into R.

That’s awesome

how do you deal with this if you don't have a data frame with the same number of rows? This one lined up but it would be easy to get data from a page like this that doesn't.

is there a way to accont for items with a missing variable for example movies that have no cast so that the final output does not result in a dataframe error?

Thank you very much! Your great tutorial video straight to the point!

Hi,
i have a question about your video, suppose that I extract the CSV file from a webpage for the engine capacity of different make/models of the cars. now I have make/model and engine capacity . should I then manually search in the CSV file to find each make/model engine capacity related to my dataset? i mean after scrapping, should I manually find data in the CSV file?

This is the best
Good quality
Best way
Not too long
Fantastic 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

This is very well done and helps out a lot, thank you!

Very clean explanation. Super useful stuff! thank you for this

How do I return values that are N/A? I am trying to scrape Indeed and some postings do not have the same variables e.g. salary.

Excellent tutorial, I've been searching for this long time. Thank you so much, bro. Here you have a new sub

My question...when i wrote file to CSV, I did not get the synopsis in Excel file...why is that

Thanks a lot

Just one question. On my page some of the movies are missing IMBD ratings and hence when i ran the command "(Error in data.frame(name, year, rating, synopsis, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) : " arguments imply differing number of rows: 50, 41"
what to do about it?

Error in data.frame(name, year, rating, synopsis, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) :
arguments imply differing number of rows: 50, 52

Great content, thanks! Waiting for your new videos!