RCrawler: An R package for parallel web crawling and scraping
RCrawler is a contributed R package for domain-based web crawling and content scraping. As the first implementation of a parallel web crawler in the R environment, RCrawler can crawl, parse, store pages, extract contents, and produce data that can be directly employed for web content mining applicat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-01-01
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| Series: | SoftwareX |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711017300110 |