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parsel

Parallel Dynamic Web-Scraping Using 'RSelenium'

v0.3.0 · Feb 22, 2023 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

A system to increase the efficiency of dynamic web-scraping with 'RSelenium' by leveraging parallel processing. You provide a function wrapper for your 'RSelenium' scraping routine with a set of inputs, and 'parsel' runs it in several browser instances. Chunked input processing as well as error catching and logging ensures seamless execution and minimal data loss, even when unforeseen 'RSelenium' errors occur. You can additionally build safe scraping functions with minimal coding by utilizing constructor functions that act as wrappers around 'RSelenium' methods.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies RSelenium lubridate purrr rlang parsel

Version History

new 0.3.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.1 diff Feb 21, 2023
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Aug 15, 2022
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.1 diff Jun 7, 2022
new 0.1.1 Mar 16, 2022