I would like to apply a loop to scrape data from multiple webpages in R. I am able to scrape the data for one webpage, however when I attempt to use a loop for multiple page
Final working code:
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# THIS WORKS!!!!
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country<-c("Norway","Sweden","Finland","France","Greece","Italy","Spain")
for(i in country){
site <- paste("http://www.countryreports.org/country/",i,".htm", sep="")
site <- html(site)
stats<-
data.frame(names =site %>% html_nodes(xpath="//*/td[1]") %>% html_text() ,
facts =site %>% html_nodes(xpath="//*/td[2]") %>% html_text() ,
stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
stats$nm <- i
stats$names <- gsub('[\r\n\t]', '', stats$names)
stats$facts <- gsub('[\r\n\t]', '', stats$facts)
#stats<-stats[!duplicated(stats),]
all<-rbind(all,stats)
}
View(all)