Timeline for HTML table does not show on source file
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 23:36 | comment | added | Old Pro | @DavidJorquera note that the link Brady Ward gave you is about using PhantomJS. Although it was the best option in 2016, PhantomJS support was abandoned in early 2018 (the last supported release is 2.1.1 from January 2016) because by then headless chrome was a better option with better support for ongoing development and support. So don't use PhantomJS for new projects. | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 13:46 | comment | added | Brady Ward | @DavidJorquera r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-javascript-rendered-sites | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 0:20 | comment | added | Stephen P | @DavidJorquera - no, I don't know R at all... and I don't know of packages in any language that I do know. You essentially have to build a web browser, minus the rendering and user-controls; you need the HTML parser, DOM builder, and full browser-compliant Javascript environment. | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 22:29 | comment | added | David Jorquera | @StephenP I think you are the closest to target, do you know any technique to do that in R? | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | Stephen P |
The GET request would just load the original page source, as text. If the table is being built dynamically it won't be there. You have to also execute the Javascript on the page to load that data and you have to build the resulting DOM.
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| Dec 13, 2018 at 20:47 | history | answered | Brady Ward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |