What is the best way to scrape this webpage? fromJSON doesnt seem to work

Asked Dec 07 '15 at 07:28

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I have been happily scraping parts of this mobile app website using getURL and fromJSON (jsonlite package in R). For example, I have been using this code and it is fairly straight forward:

CardURL = getURL("http://m.racingpost.com/#cards-horse/horse_id=901690& race_id=639116&r_date=2015-12-07")
CardDATA = fromJSON(CardURL)
CardDATA[["tab-card"]][["runners"]]

However when i got to this particular part of the webpage it doesn't work in same way as other sections:

http://m.racingpost.com/#cards-horse/horse_id=901690&race_id=639116&r_date=2015-12-07

It seems to return with text like 'your browzer isn't optimised' rather than returning the actual text I want to scrape. What is the best way to scrape data like this?

thanks

asked Dec 07 '15 at 07:28

Tammboy

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Just wondering if it is allowed to scrape data from this website. – Dec 07 '15 at 07:30
webpages can stop you scraping data - is that possible? – Tammboy Dec 07 '15 at 21:50
Webpage, no. Privacy and terms, yes. – Dec 07 '15 at 22:14

What is the best way to scrape this webpage? fromJSON doesnt seem to work

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