April 2025
- Did a complete rewrite of section 7.7 to address changes in the websites to be javascript driven instead of static HTML. Introduce {rplaywright}.
- Turned off evaluation in 7.9 as the websites have changed to the code does not all work but remains illustirative of the aapproach. Added a warning.
- Updated a few expired links due to changes in publisher sites.
- Updated the list of browsers for html_live in 7.5.7
October 2024
- Update to Web scraping to use {rvest}
read_html_live()
.
August 2024
- Extensive update to section 7 on webscraping to account for changes in IMDB website.
- Added new example with Selector Gadget with UN Aid organizations
- Changed all the IMDB sections to use Developer Tools with new CSS selectors
- Added section on using {chromote} pacage to get scroll the IMDB pages
- Adjusted the Taylor Swift example to match new column headers on Wikipedia.
July 2024
- Update appendix A for installing software
- Update appendix B to eliminate PATs for GitHub and include 2 factor authentication and GCM for both Mac and Windows.
May 2024
- Section 7.8: Update from the {tabulizer} package for scraping PDFs to its replacement, the {tabulapdf} package.