I am new to R and am trying to web scrape a jsp page to collect data. The page I want scrape from is: https://www.taxpayerservicecenter.com/RP_Search.jsp After I get a browser to open this url, I want to select neighborhoods, and scrape all the data there.
Also, is there an easier/better way to do this? This page has buttons and forms so it isn't as straight forward as say, scraping from a wikipedia page.
library(RSelenium) #passes
checkForServer() #passes
startServer() #passes
remDriver <- remoteDriver(remoteServerAddr="localhost", port=4444, browserName="firefox")
The following line is where I receive the error:
remDriver$open() #opens a browser, get the farthest w firefox
This is the error message I receive. I have searched everywhere for how to solve this!:
> remDriver$open() #opens a browser, get the farthest w firefox
[1] "Connecting to remote server"
Error: Summary: UnknownError
Detail: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.
class: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException
Things I have tried:
- connecting to selenium server standalone by searching it and clicking on it
- running the following: checkForServer(update = TRUE)
Here is my Session Info:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] RSelenium_1.3.5 XML_3.98-1.4 RJSONIO_1.3-0 RCurl_1.95-4.8 bitops_1.0-6
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.0 caTools_1.17.1
Please, please, help!
