rselenium

How to set up rselenium for R?

情到浓时终转凉″ 提交于 2019-12-28 03:03:47
问题 "everything was better back then"... since firefox 49 (?) you can't use the rselenium package not straightforward anymore. I have searched the whole internet to find a SIMPLE How To Manual for setting up rselenium but did not find anything relevant and uptodate. Can someone provide me and all the others out there who have no clue a simple How To manual? Like: download XY open AB so I can run code like the following require(RSelenium) remDr <- remoteDriver(remoteServerAddr = "localhost", port

Looping in RSelenium and Scraping

社会主义新天地 提交于 2019-12-25 01:34:54
问题 I'm trying to scrape data from website using RSelenium. I am able to navigate through drop downs individually but when I run them in loop I get error. Also after selecting all the values in the drop down I want to store the name of the facility and contact details in a table. Which I'm not able to do so far. rm(list=ls()) setwd("D:\\work_codes\\kvk\\data") getwd() library(RSelenium) library(rvest) library(XML) library(RCurl) library(magrittr) library(stringr) rd<-rsDriver() remDr<-rd[["client

I'm trying to download RSelenium for R v 3.5 but it says the following

巧了我就是萌 提交于 2019-12-24 08:28:34
问题 install.packages("RSelenium") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Mithu/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘RSelenium’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0) I also looked up on the blog and found: install.packages("RSelenium", repos = "https://github.com/ropensci/RSelenium.git") which said the same error along with it couldn't reach the URL. I also tried with R version 3.1.0, 3.1.3, 3.2.0 which gave me "wdman" & "binman" error

RSelenium : connection refused error

懵懂的女人 提交于 2019-12-24 03:37:07
问题 I'm trying to connect to Selenium server using the most recent version of RSelenium. Here is the code I used: install.packages('RSelenium') library(RSelenium) remDr <- remoteDriver(remoteServerAddr = "localhost" , port = 4445L , browserName = "firefox" ) remDr$open() The output is as follows: Error in checkError(res) : Undefined error in httr call. httr output: Failed to connect to localhost port 4445: Connection refused I have tried this solution (using the docker). I downloaded the docker

R passing RSelenium driver environment as function argument

狂风中的少年 提交于 2019-12-24 01:18:02
问题 i'm probably not seeing something obvious, anyway i'd like to create functions to automatically extract text from an url already handled by a remote driver. I'd like to pass as a function arguments the xpath expression and the environment into which the remote driver could be found library(RSelenium) url="http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=r+program" remdir<-remoteDriver(remoteServerAddr = "localhost", port = 4444, browserName = "firefox") remdir$open() remdir$navigate(url) env<-environment()

Disable Dialog Box - Save As - Rselenium

余生长醉 提交于 2019-12-24 01:12:55
问题 I'm using RSelenium on my MacBook to scrape publicly available .csv files. None of the other questions posed so far had answers that were particularly helpful for me. Please don't mark this as a duplicate. With respect to Firefox, I can't disable the dialog box. I've tried a number of different things. According to Firefox, the MIME type of the file I'm trying to download text/csv; charset=UTF-8 . However, executing the following code still elicits the dialog box to appear: fprof <-

RSelenium Couldn't connect to host rsDriver()

会有一股神秘感。 提交于 2019-12-23 03:13:45
问题 I am trying to scrape a website with RSelenium. However, I run into problems when I want to connect to the Selenium server. Imagine I use the rsDriver() command to start a selenium server and browser: rsDriver(browser = c('firefox')) This is the output generated: [1] "Connecting to remote server" Fehler in checkError(res) : Couldnt connect to host on http://localhost:4567/wd/hub. Please ensure a Selenium server is running. Zusätzlich: Warnmeldung: In rsDriver(browser = c("firefox")) : Could

RSelenium not working with Firefox

被刻印的时光 ゝ 提交于 2019-12-22 12:54:07
问题 I know my question is similar to this one, but he's trying to use Chrome while I'm trying to use Firefox (47.0.1). So basically, I'm trying to use RSelenium. Here is my code : > library(RSelenium) > checkForServer() > startServer() > mybrowser <- remoteDriver() > mybrowser$open() And with that last line, I get the following error. [1] "Connecting to remote server" Error: Summary: UnknownError Detail: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. class: org.openqa

R - Rselenium - navigate drop down menu / list / box using = 'id'

…衆ロ難τιáo~ 提交于 2019-12-22 12:02:06
问题 How can I navigate a dynamic drop down list via " using = 'id' " (e.g., remDr$findElement(using='id', value="main_ddYear") ? I can find and click using findElement . After clicking I could send "down arrow" keys (keystrokes) and an "enter" if I know how many arrows down my targeted selection is. Sample of the page source <select name="main$ddYear" onchange="javascript:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'main$ddYear\',\'\')', 0)" id="main_ddYear" class="groupTextBox"> <option selected="selected" value=

RSelenium through docker

99封情书 提交于 2019-12-22 09:47:07
问题 My OS is windows 8.1 and I have the version 3.3.3 of R. I have installed the RSelenium packages and I try to run it using this: library("RSelenium") #start RSelenium server startServer() checkForServer() and I receive this error: Error: checkForServer is now defunct. Users in future can find the function in file.path(find.package("RSelenium"), "examples/serverUtils"). The recommended way to run a selenium server is via Docker. Alternatively see the RSelenium::rsDriver function. Is there