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| library("scraply") # also loads XML and plyr | |
| tree <- url2tree("http://www.house.gov/representatives/#name_a") | |
| nodes <- tree2node(tree, select='class="directory"') | |
| data <- ldply(nodes, readHTMLTable) | |
| write.csv(data, "representatives.csv", row.names=FALSE) |
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oddly, this page consists of two lists of representatives: one sorted by state, one by name. each is its separate div and is hidden when a user chooses to search by state / name. thus, when we run this scraper we get two versions of the same data. the only difference is that one has complete strings for districts while the other has an integer (unless the rep is "at large")