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NHSDataDictionaRy (version 1.2.5)

xpathTextR: xpathTextR function

Description

Returns xpath text from websites and can be used to access specific HTML nodes

Usage

xpathTextR(url, xpath, ssl_needed = FALSE)

Arguments

url

The link for the website

xpath

The xpath string derived by using the Inspect functionality in a web browser.

ssl_needed

Default - FALSE - Boolean to indicate whether to need a SSL certificate

Value

A list with the results of scraping the specific xpath element

  • result - the extracted text from the website element that has been scraped

  • website_passed - a copy of the input url for the website

  • html_node_result - returns the extracted html node result

  • datetime_access - returns a timestamp of when the results of the scraping operation have been completed

  • person_accessed - retrieves the system environment stored username and domain - this is concatenated together to form a mixed charatcer string