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May I ask if there are alternatives to RSelenium package for dynamic web scraping?. The package only accepts Chrome version 108 and mine is 107. Rvest alone returns 0.

I need to scrape profiles age data using search from this link. https://www.healthgrades.com/

Also, I would be grateful if you have any suggestions to run RSelenium in version 107

camille
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amany marey
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    That's a persistent problem with me as well. Some possible solutions float around, but they are not always helpful. Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71003899/problems-with-rselenium-and-chromedriver-this-version-of-chromedriver-only-su – anpami Nov 18 '22 at 07:33
  • Did you try to use firefox? – Earl Mascetti Nov 23 '22 at 15:35
  • It worked with me using instructions in the link. Thanks! – amany marey Nov 23 '22 at 15:37

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I have been able to connect to the website with the following code :

library(RSelenium)

shell('docker run -d -p 4446:4444 selenium/standalone-firefox')
remDr <- remoteDriver(remoteServerAddr = "localhost", port = 4446L, browserName = "firefox")
remDr$open()
remDr$navigate("https://www.healthgrades.com/")
remDr$screenshot(TRUE)
Emmanuel Hamel
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