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Scrape an online HTML table

Source: R/read_html_table.R
read_html_table.Rd

read_html_table() returns an HTML table at a specified URL and CSS element as a dataframe.

Usage

read_html_table(url, css)

Arguments

url

A string giving the URL to read from.

css

A string giving the CSS element to select.

SelectorGadget (https://selectorgadget.com/) is a useful tool for finding the code for the CSS element you need. See rvest::html_element() for more information.

Value

A tibble.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive() && !is.null(curl::nslookup("senate.gov", error = FALSE))
# The table used in `get_senate_cloture_votes()`
# NOTE: `get_senate_cloture_votes()` performs some cleaning on this table
read_html_table("https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/clotureCounts.htm",
                css = ".cloturecount")
}
if (FALSE) { # interactive() && !is.null(curl::nslookup("www.baseball-reference.com", error = FALSE))
# A table from Baseball Reference
read_html_table(url = "https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/rules-changes-stats.shtml",
                css = "#time_of_game")
}