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R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Techniques and tools to crawl and scrape data from websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138733
Length 114 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Olgun Aydin Olgun Aydin
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Web Scraping with Rselenium

Selenium has been developed to test web applications. Selenium allows writing tests without the need to learn any test script language (Selenium IDE). In addition, C #, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala, such as a series of popular programming language to provide testing environment. These tests can then be run on most modern web browsers. Selenium is an open source software under the Apache 2.0 license.

Selenium is designed to automate the operations of a web browser. With Selenium, any user can manually perform interactions that can be performed manually. Selenium can be used for any kind of automation, but the priority is to create automated web application tests.

The name of Selenium comes from a joke. Another automated testing framework was used as a popup during the development of Selenium, and the company was Mercury Interactive...

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