| html_session {rvest} | R Documentation |
Simulate a session in an html browser.
html_session(url, ...) is.session(x)
url |
Location to start session |
... |
Any additional httr config to use throughout session. |
x |
An object to test to see if it's a session. |
A session object responds to a combination of httr and html methods:
use httr::cookies(), httr::headers(),
and httr::status_code() to access properties of the request;
and html_nodes() to access the html.
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15853204
s <- html_session("http://hadley.nz")
s %>% jump_to("hadley-wickham.jpg") %>% jump_to("/") %>% session_history()
s %>% jump_to("hadley-wickham.jpg") %>% back() %>% session_history()
s %>% follow_link(css = "p a")