Phantomjs returns 404 in R when attempting webscraping
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I am trying to collect some data from the OTC Markets (within the confines of their robots.txt) and I cannot connect to the webpage.
- The first step I tried was just to scrape the HTML right off the page, but the page requires javascript to load.
- So I downloaded phantomjs and connected that way. However, this leads to a 404 error page
- I then changed the user-agent to something resembling a user to see if it would let me connect and still, no luck! What is going on here
Here is a reproducible version of my code, any help would be appreciated. Phantomjs can be downloaded here: http://phantomjs.org/
library(rvest)
library(xml2)
library(V8)
# example website, I have no correlation to this stock
url <- 'https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/YTROF/profile'
# create javascript file that phantomjs can process
writeLines(sprintf("var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36';
page.open('%s', function () {
console.log(page.content); //page source
phantom.exit();
});", url), con="scrape.js")
html <- system("phantomjs.exe_PATH scrape.js", intern = TRUE)
page_html <- read_html(html)
r web-scraping phantomjs
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
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I am trying to collect some data from the OTC Markets (within the confines of their robots.txt) and I cannot connect to the webpage.
- The first step I tried was just to scrape the HTML right off the page, but the page requires javascript to load.
- So I downloaded phantomjs and connected that way. However, this leads to a 404 error page
- I then changed the user-agent to something resembling a user to see if it would let me connect and still, no luck! What is going on here
Here is a reproducible version of my code, any help would be appreciated. Phantomjs can be downloaded here: http://phantomjs.org/
library(rvest)
library(xml2)
library(V8)
# example website, I have no correlation to this stock
url <- 'https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/YTROF/profile'
# create javascript file that phantomjs can process
writeLines(sprintf("var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36';
page.open('%s', function () {
console.log(page.content); //page source
phantom.exit();
});", url), con="scrape.js")
html <- system("phantomjs.exe_PATH scrape.js", intern = TRUE)
page_html <- read_html(html)
r web-scraping phantomjs
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
112
backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/profile/full/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… (Developer Tools is ur bff; those return lovely JSON; the parameters seem sane and repeatable with other stocks; i.e. you don't need any scary phantoms) + 👍 for checking 🤖
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:20
Woah! I didn't know that was even an option. I appreciate the help, should I leave the original up for an answer for this problem regardless? @hrbrmstr
– RobertLD
Nov 12 '18 at 18:22
totally up to you. This is a regularly occurring thing on SO (esp in the R tag). For some reason folks haven't picked up on async XHR requests yet.
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:25
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I am trying to collect some data from the OTC Markets (within the confines of their robots.txt) and I cannot connect to the webpage.
- The first step I tried was just to scrape the HTML right off the page, but the page requires javascript to load.
- So I downloaded phantomjs and connected that way. However, this leads to a 404 error page
- I then changed the user-agent to something resembling a user to see if it would let me connect and still, no luck! What is going on here
Here is a reproducible version of my code, any help would be appreciated. Phantomjs can be downloaded here: http://phantomjs.org/
library(rvest)
library(xml2)
library(V8)
# example website, I have no correlation to this stock
url <- 'https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/YTROF/profile'
# create javascript file that phantomjs can process
writeLines(sprintf("var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36';
page.open('%s', function () {
console.log(page.content); //page source
phantom.exit();
});", url), con="scrape.js")
html <- system("phantomjs.exe_PATH scrape.js", intern = TRUE)
page_html <- read_html(html)
r web-scraping phantomjs
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
112
I am trying to collect some data from the OTC Markets (within the confines of their robots.txt) and I cannot connect to the webpage.
- The first step I tried was just to scrape the HTML right off the page, but the page requires javascript to load.
- So I downloaded phantomjs and connected that way. However, this leads to a 404 error page
- I then changed the user-agent to something resembling a user to see if it would let me connect and still, no luck! What is going on here
Here is a reproducible version of my code, any help would be appreciated. Phantomjs can be downloaded here: http://phantomjs.org/
library(rvest)
library(xml2)
library(V8)
# example website, I have no correlation to this stock
url <- 'https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/YTROF/profile'
# create javascript file that phantomjs can process
writeLines(sprintf("var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36';
page.open('%s', function () {
console.log(page.content); //page source
phantom.exit();
});", url), con="scrape.js")
html <- system("phantomjs.exe_PATH scrape.js", intern = TRUE)
page_html <- read_html(html)
r web-scraping phantomjs
r web-scraping phantomjs
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
112
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
112
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
112
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
112
asked Nov 12 '18 at 18:11
RobertLDRobertLD
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backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/profile/full/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… (Developer Tools is ur bff; those return lovely JSON; the parameters seem sane and repeatable with other stocks; i.e. you don't need any scary phantoms) + 👍 for checking 🤖
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:20
Woah! I didn't know that was even an option. I appreciate the help, should I leave the original up for an answer for this problem regardless? @hrbrmstr
– RobertLD
Nov 12 '18 at 18:22
totally up to you. This is a regularly occurring thing on SO (esp in the R tag). For some reason folks haven't picked up on async XHR requests yet.
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:25
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backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/profile/full/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… (Developer Tools is ur bff; those return lovely JSON; the parameters seem sane and repeatable with other stocks; i.e. you don't need any scary phantoms) + 👍 for checking 🤖
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:20
Woah! I didn't know that was even an option. I appreciate the help, should I leave the original up for an answer for this problem regardless? @hrbrmstr
– RobertLD
Nov 12 '18 at 18:22
totally up to you. This is a regularly occurring thing on SO (esp in the R tag). For some reason folks haven't picked up on async XHR requests yet.
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:25
backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/profile/full/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… (Developer Tools is ur bff; those return lovely JSON; the parameters seem sane and repeatable with other stocks; i.e. you don't need any scary phantoms) + 👍 for checking 🤖
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:20
backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/profile/full/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… (Developer Tools is ur bff; those return lovely JSON; the parameters seem sane and repeatable with other stocks; i.e. you don't need any scary phantoms) + 👍 for checking 🤖
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:20
Woah! I didn't know that was even an option. I appreciate the help, should I leave the original up for an answer for this problem regardless? @hrbrmstr
– RobertLD
Nov 12 '18 at 18:22
Woah! I didn't know that was even an option. I appreciate the help, should I leave the original up for an answer for this problem regardless? @hrbrmstr
– RobertLD
Nov 12 '18 at 18:22
totally up to you. This is a regularly occurring thing on SO (esp in the R tag). For some reason folks haven't picked up on async XHR requests yet.
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:25
totally up to you. This is a regularly occurring thing on SO (esp in the R tag). For some reason folks haven't picked up on async XHR requests yet.
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:25
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backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/profile/full/… && backend.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/stock/trade/inside/… (Developer Tools is ur bff; those return lovely JSON; the parameters seem sane and repeatable with other stocks; i.e. you don't need any scary phantoms) + 👍 for checking 🤖
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:20
Woah! I didn't know that was even an option. I appreciate the help, should I leave the original up for an answer for this problem regardless? @hrbrmstr
– RobertLD
Nov 12 '18 at 18:22
totally up to you. This is a regularly occurring thing on SO (esp in the R tag). For some reason folks haven't picked up on async XHR requests yet.
– hrbrmstr
Nov 12 '18 at 18:25