rvest

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2014-11-2215 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Wrappers around the 'xml2' and 'httr' packages to make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("rvest")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("tidyverse/rvest")

Development version from tidyverse/rvest. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-rvest

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-rvest

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-rvest

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

not tracked

Coverage

98%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

9

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-04-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

7.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #142 · ~19.6K/day · ~596.4K/mo

rvest Releases R versions

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379.4K30 days

1.4M90 days

7.2M1 year

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Also on62.6K r2u120 autocran810.2K conda_forge14.8K c2d4u

Source & community

GitHub ↗

Repository stars, issues, and contributor activity are not tracked yet.

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (9)

cli glue httr lifecycle magrittr rlang selectr tibble xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

chromote covr knitr purrr R6 readr repurrrsive rmarkdown spelling stringi testthat tidyr webfakes

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

258direct

–indirect (not tracked)

and 210 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 4,436 (66%)Rd 1,086 (16%)Markdown 533 (8%)Vignettes 487 (7%)HTML 146 (2%)

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

191 38 exported

Complexity

2.1 avg / 23 max

Call network

191 nodes / 165 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Release timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.5Latest
2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.4
2024-02-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.3
2022-08-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.2
2021-10-17 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2021-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
2021-03-09 · diff ↗
0.3.6
2020-07-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.5
2019-11-09 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2019-05-15 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.3
2019-04-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.2
2016-06-17 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.1
2015-11-11 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2015-09-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.0
2015-01-01 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2014-11-22
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-11-22
Total releases: 15 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet