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| library(httr) | |
| library(XML) | |
| library(selectr) | |
| xpath <- function(x) structure(x, class = "xpath") | |
| sel <- function(x) xpath(css_to_xpath(x, prefix = "//")) | |
| url <- "http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ateam.htm" | |
| html <- content(GET(url), "parsed") | |
| "[.HTMLInternalDocument" <- function(x, i, ...) { | |
| if (inherits(i, "xpath")) { | |
| xpathApply(x, i) | |
| } else { | |
| NextMethod() | |
| } | |
| } | |
| html[sel("center")] | |
| html[sel("center font")] | |
| html[sel("center font b")] |
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