How to force UTF-8 encoding when extracting a link using RSelenium?

Asked Jul 19 '17 at 18:05

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I'm using RSelenium to run a RemoteDriver on my system. I need to extract a link from a page, and read that link with UTF-8 encoding (so that I can convert it to the encoding I need). This is what I'm doing right now -

url <- paste0("https://www.google.co.in/#q=abc+xyz") remDr$navigate(url) x <- remDr$findElement("css","._tWc")$getElementAttribute("href")

However, here the encoding of x is unknown (using Encoding(x)). Is there any way I can extract the link, while preserving the UTF-8 encoding?

asked Jul 19 '17 at 18:05

Shubham Maurya

Scraping google is against their ToS – hrbrmstr Jul 19 '17 at 22:19
You are completely free to have that opinion. People are wrong all the time. – hrbrmstr Jul 24 '17 at 13:45

How to force UTF-8 encoding when extracting a link using RSelenium?

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