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January 10, 2019 11:54
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Twitter Followers per Day from Social Blade
Yes, this is not working indeed! Seems like they closed the opportunity to retrieve data from their website like this. You can check out RSelenium (https://github.com/ropensci/RSelenium) to scrape the website anyway.
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Howdy! I'm getting
> social_html <- read_html("https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/favstats/monthly") Error in open.connection(x, "rb") : HTTP error 403.
When I try to run this. Any ideas? The preliminary research I did tells me I may not have permissions to scrape web data from this domain.