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How can Rselenium be utilized to extract data from several tabs within a single webpage?

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answered 2021-07-17 12:00:00 +0000

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Rselenium can be utilized to extract data from several tabs within a single webpage by following these steps:

  1. Launch a browser using Rselenium script and navigate to the webpage with multiple tabs.
  2. Find the element(s) that represent the tabs and click on them one by one.
  3. After clicking on each tab, scrape the data present in each tab using the usual Rselenium techniques like finding elements and extracting their attributes or text.
  4. Store the scraped data for each tab in a separate dataframe or other storage structures to keep them organized.

Here's an example code to extract data from two tabs:

```{r} library(RSelenium) url <- "https://www.example.com/" driver <- rsDriver(browser = "chrome") remDr <- driver[["client"]] remDr$navigate(url)

find and click on the first tab

tab1 <- remDr$findElement(using = "xpath", "//div[@class='tab' and @id='tab1']") tab1$clickElement()

scrape data from the first tab

data1 <- remDr$findElement(using = "xpath", "//table[@class='datatable']") data1df <- readHTMLTable(HTML(data1$getElementAttribute("outerHTML")[[1]]))[1]

click and scrape data from the second tab

tab2 <- remDr$findElement(using = "xpath", "//div[@class='tab' and @id='tab2']") tab2$clickElement() data2 <- remDr$findElement(using = "xpath", "//ul[@class='list']") data2_list <- data2$getElementAttribute("textContent")[[1]]

close the browser window

remDr$close() ```

In the example above, we first launch a Chrome browser using Rselenium, navigate to an example website with two tabs. We then find and click on each tab, extract data from each tab (a table and a list), and store them in separate variables (data1df and data2list). Finally, we close the browser window.

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