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Safe html scrapping

Source: R/safe_html.R
safe_html.Rd

Function safe_html tries to download the URL several times.

Usage

safe_html(page, time = 60, attempts = 10)

Arguments

page

requested URL

time

sleep interval after each failure

attempts

max number of tries (if there is a problem with connection)

Value

character vector

Details

Function safe_html performes 10 (by default) attempts to download the URL and waits 60sec (by default) after each failure

Author

Przemyslaw Biecek

Examples

if (FALSE) {
page <- paste0('http://www.sejm.gov.pl/Sejm7.nsf/',
               'wypowiedz.xsp?posiedzenie=15&dzien=1&wyp=008')
safe_html(page)}