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chrome_read_html: Read a URL via headless Chrome and return the raw or rendered <body> innerHTML DOM elements

Description

Read a URL via headless Chrome and return the raw or rendered <body> innerHTML DOM elements

Usage

chrome_read_html(url, render = TRUE,
  chrome_bin = Sys.getenv("HEADLESS_CHROME"))

Arguments

url

URL to read from

render

if TRUE then return an xml_document, else the raw HTML (invisibly)

chrome_bin

the path to Chrome (auto-set from HEADLESS_CHROME environment variable)

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
chrome_read_html("https://www.r-project.org/")
# }

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