Scraping examples in R

About the site

Scraping is challenging because every example is different. As I do different scraping projects, I’ll try to save examples in this repo.

The list so far

• Baseball Reference batting
• Paginated tables
• Playbill Grosses
• Heisman votes
• Death row data
• UT Soccer stats

Resources

• The rvest package documentation.
• Hadley Wickham’s web scraping tutorial. He presented this as a half-day session at NICAR24.
• My Billboard Data repo uses Github Actions and rvest to scrape on a schedule.

To do

Too many to list, but I do want to learn polite and build in some wait time.