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April 26, 2017 21:17
R: scrape multiple pages with XML and readHTMLTable
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| library(XML) | |
| library(plyr) | |
| base.url <- "http://www.ttmeiju.com/meiju/Movie.html?page" | |
| GetTable <- function(page.number) { | |
| full.url <- paste(base.url, page.number, sep = "=") | |
| doc <- htmlParse(full.url, encoding = "GBK") | |
| node <- getNodeSet(doc, "//table")[[2]] | |
| last.row <- xmlSize(node) - 1 |