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The goal of RSelenium is to make it easy to connect to a Selenium Server/ Remote Selenium Server from within R. RSelenium provides R bindings for the Selenium Webdriver API. Selenium is a project focused on automating web browsers. RSelenium allows you to carry out unit testing and regression testing on your webapps and webpages across a range of browser/OS combinations.

The goal of RSelenium is to make it easy to connect to a Selenium Server/ Remote Selenium Server from within R. RSelenium provides R bindings for the Selenium Webdriver API.

Selenium is a project focused on automating web browsers. See http://docs.seleniumhq.org/

RSelenium allows you to carry out unit testing and regression testing on your webapps and webpages across a range of browser/OS combinations. This allows us to integrate from within R testing and manipulation of popular projects such as shiny, sauceLabs.

Selenium Server is a standalone java program which allows you to run HTML test suites in a range of different browsers, plus extra options like reporting.

See vignette for more details- http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSelenium/vignettes/RSelenium-basics.html

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RSelenium Page not opening

I am attempting to search a page using RSelenium. Right now I am trying to go to mapmyrun.com/routes; later to scrape data. I have RSelenium up and running through the Docker Toolbox and in the Chrome browser. I go…
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How can I get specific data from the table using Rselenium?

I am trying to scrape a table that I believe is using Java script. I want to get the data for indices (i.e., TSX). I would like to get the "Previous day data" for all indices. I am scraping the data using Rselenium but it is unable to locate the…
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Rselenium - port 4445: Connection refused

I want to use R Selenium for some web-scraping however I got a connection error. Have a look on a simple code and…
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RSelenium and Docker Quick Start Terminal - cannot connect to remote server

I am trying to initial work of Rselenium. I followed guide from this post: „can't execute rsDriver (connection refused)” library(RSelenium) #Let's Start shell('docker pull selenium/standalone-firefox') shell('docker run -d -p 4445:4444…
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Xpath works in Chrome Dev Tools, but not RSelenium

I have been working on a project to pull an html table that has a specific text ("Current Prison History:") from multiple URLs that change according to one's ID. With that being said, I have tried to use the CSS selector, but the problem with that…
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RSelenium: scraping a FULL expandable table

Based off this question, the OP wants to scrape the table "All Holdings," from this page - scroll down to the yellow part. The table shows the first 10 rows, but can expand to quite a few more. Both of my rvest and RSelenium solutions only take the…
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RSelenium and Chrome not displaying the complete page

Trying to navigate using RSelenium, however, the complete page is not loaded and several element text is missing. Works fine using FireFox, not Chrome. Example code library(RSelenium) rD <- rsDriver(port = 4567L, browser = 'chrome') remDr <-…
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Rselenium - Javascript/HTML

Can anyone give me some advice by using FindElement to click some button in the website, which is under the Javascript function. After