R Observatory: Metrics for Rcrawler version 0.1.9-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-04-04. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.1.9-1, its last release before removal.

Rcrawler

0.1.9-1Package record

Web Crawler and Scraper

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Salim KhalilCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Performs parallel web crawling and web scraping. It is designed to crawl, parse and store web pages to produce data that can be directly used for analysis application. For details see Khalil and Fakir (2017) DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2017.04.004.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Rcrawler/Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "Rcrawler_0.1.9-1.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.9-1) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("salimk/Rcrawler")

Development version from salimk/Rcrawler. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.9-1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 23%3 run in a plain check · 9 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 81%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

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Also on47 r2u1 autocran136 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

httr xml2 data.table foreach doParallelparallelselectr webdriver callr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Salim Khalil

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2017)

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-04-04
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.9-1
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2018-11-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
Drv_fetchpage, LoginSession, browser_path, install_browser, run_browser, stop_browser
0.1.8-0
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2018-10-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.7-0
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2017-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ListProjects, LoadHTMLFiles
0.1.5
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2017-10-23 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2017-10-22 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2017-10-12 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2017-07-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
getDistance, getsimHash

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0.1.1
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2017-06-17 · diff ↗
0.1
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2017-06-15
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-15
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 0.1.7-0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rcrawler")

Format

Khalil, S. (n.d.). Rcrawler: Web Crawler and Scraper (Version 0.1.9-1) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rcrawler

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rcrawler version 0.1.9-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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