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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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phantomjs unable to find element on page

Recently, I've been having trouble driving phantomjs under RSelenium. It seems that the browser is unable to locate anything on the page using findElement(). If I pass something as simple…
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RSelenium and display every rows

I am trying to scrape this website: http://weirwood-net.com/generalinfo. There is a table with 1874 rows. I tried to scrape it. I got it, but only the 10 first rows. It comes from the lengthMenu in 10. The other possibilities are 25, 50, 100, all. I…
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Using Rselenium and Phantomjs to access Google Trends but having issues with Quota Limits

I am trying to access the data off of Google Trends. I am using Rselenium to access my Gmail account; hoping the credentials will increase my quota in terms of daily limits. Unfortunately, after a few scrapes, I receive an error page.onError - msg:…
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RSelenium issue with startServer() on windows 10

I have an issue with RSelenium startServer() and already read the post at RSelenium issue with startServer() on windows However, the solution in that thread is not working to my environment. When I try to startServer() in R 3.3.1, I get follwoing…
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RSelenium doesn't connect

I have a problem trying to connect with RSelenium package: > checkForServer() > startServer() $stop function () { tools::pskill(selPID) } $getPID function () { return(selPID) }
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RSelenium - how to obtain a node's child node number and their xpaths

I am using RSelenium for web scraping. Now I have an xpath of a certain XML node from a dynamically generated web page. The child nodes are of the same kind. However, I have no a priori knowledge about the number of child nodes. (For instance, when…
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Why isn't it working when I attempt to open a firefox browser using rSelenium?

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…
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How to use package Rselenium? css selector drop-down list element

Maybe my question is a little basic, but know very little programming. I'm trying to automate the downloading of data from the next page (it is a page of the Chilean government, so the data are public) With the package Rselenium Odepa historic…
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RSelenium always shows a redirection

I am trying to repeat the example code shown in the RSelenium remoteDriver help topic. As you can see from the commented out responses I am getting a redirection, and I get the same response for every RSelenium function. How do I overcome this…
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scraping table with R using RSelenium

I want to scrape a table like this (click on search then you will get a table of partners). I'd want to scrape the partner names. The problem is I don't know what kind of a table that is nor how to scrape it. I am using RSelenium package. If it can…
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Web-scraping with Rselenium. Doesn't return full information

I want to scrape all comments, for example, from this web-page: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/10597708 My code: library('RSelenium') library('XML') library('RCurl') pJS <-…
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R - How to change the value of an input tag using RSelenium?

I want to change the page size on a web site as shown in the image using RSelenium. Page Size image. Its actually a combobox with the following html written for it:
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How to switch tabs in an URL using RSelenium?

I am working on R. I need to change the tab which is on a website as shown in the image.Image showing the tabs (CDP Profile, AIM) When I log on to the site, I am by default on CDP Profile. I want to change the tab to AIM using RSelenium. How can I…
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R 3.2.4 RSelenium findElements, on Windows 8 --UnknownError when inside function

When I try to run the following lines with a single command mybrowser$navigate("http://www.decolar.com/shop/flights/results/roundtrip/BSB/VCP/2016-06-15/2016-06-19/1/0/0") eprice <- mybrowser$findElements(using = 'css selector',"#clusters…
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Rselenium web scraping problems

I'm trying to parse this HTML with R in order to extract some currency exchange rates. They are only visible after clicking on buttons in the center of the webpage (sorry, it's in Russian). So far I've tried both Rselenium and rvest, but none of…
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