Scrape a URL with several tables with Rvest

Question

I am trying to learn how to do some scrapping using rvest package. I´m using this url to load the information, and I am trying to get the information of the table marked as

Answer 1

The "Advanced" table is hidden under comments, hence it isn't directly accessible. We can get all the comments together using xpath and then parse the table from it.

library(rvest)
url = "https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/leonaka01.html"

url %>%
  read_html %>%
  html_nodes(xpath = '//comment()') %>%
  html_text() %>%
  toString() %>%
  read_html() %>%
  html_node('table#advanced') %>%
  html_table() 

#      Season Age  Tm  Lg Pos   G    MP  PER   TS%  3PAr   FTr ORB% ...
#1    2011-12  20 SAS NBA  SF  64  1534 16.6 0.573 0.270 0.218  7.9 ...
#2    2012-13  21 SAS NBA  SF  58  1810 16.4 0.592 0.331 0.240  4.3 ...
#3    2013-14  22 SAS NBA  SF  66  1923 19.4 0.602 0.282 0.195  4.6 ...
#4    2014-15  23 SAS NBA  SF  64  2033 22.0 0.567 0.234 0.307  4.8 ...
#5    2015-16  24 SAS NBA  SF  72  2380 26.0 0.616 0.267 0.306  4.7 ...
#6    2016-17  25 SAS NBA  SF  74  2474 27.6 0.610 0.295 0.406  3.7 ...
#7    2017-18  26 SAS NBA  SF   9   210 26.0 0.572 0.315 0.342  3.1 ...
#8    2018-19  27 TOR NBA  SF  60  2040 25.8 0.606 0.267 0.377  4.2 ...
#9    2019-20  28 LAC NBA  SF   6   183 35.1 0.572 0.230 0.319  5.5 ...
#10    Career  NA     NBA     473 14587 22.8 0.599 0.276 0.318  4.8 ...
#11            NA              NA    NA   NA    NA    NA    NA   NA ...
#12 7 seasons  NA SAS NBA     407 12364 22.1 0.597 0.279 0.305  4.8 ...
#13  1 season  NA TOR NBA      60  2040 25.8 0.606 0.267 0.377  4.2 ...
#14  1 season  NA LAC NBA       6   183 35.1 0.572 0.230 0.319  5.5 ...