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")