I have updated my r to latest version and I installed Rselenium again. I try to use rsDriver but it has a problem with port 4567. Same like this Error trace back: rd <-rsDriver(verbose =TRUE,...

I am trying to scrape a website with RSelenium. However, I run into problems when I want to connect to the Selenium server. Imagine I use the rsDriver() command to start a selenium server and brow...

I can't get anywhere with R selenium. Here's the first step and my output: library(RSelenium) rD <- rsDriver() # checking Selenium Server versions: # BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD # BEGIN: DOWNLOAD # BEGI...

I am using Rselenium and today I got a weird issue. It was working until last friday but now it got crashed. I have updated main packages and also java but it is not working. This is what I get whe...

I am trying to use RSelenium for webscraping. I am following the basics tutorial as explained on cran. The recommended approach is to install Docker (see tutorial as well as this stackoverflow answ...

I'm trying to open a local HTML file using RSelenium. I've been following this guide (https://callumgwtaylor.github.io/blog/2018/02/01/using-rselenium-and-docker-to-webscrape-in-r-using-the-who-sna...

Cannot start a new session with phantomjs using rsDriver. Other browsers work fine, but when i try the option of phantomjs it does not work and I cannot fully grasp the meaning of the output of the...

"everything was better back then"... since firefox 49 (?) you can't use the rselenium package not straightforward anymore. I have searched the whole internet to find a SIMPLE How To Manual for set...

After updating to RStudio Version 2022.12.0+353 (2022.12.0+353), I am unable to find a freeport using netstat. I have never had this problem before. How do I fix this? library(RSelenium) library(ne...

I am working on a data extraction task using R. The data is allocated in a power BI dashboard so it is very troublesome to get that. I found I solution here on SO: Scrape website's Power BI das...

I'm using the following code in RSelenium to open a browser. After I close the browser, or even close the handler by running remDr$close(), the port is still in use. I have to go to the terminal an...

I'm trying to implement exception handling in RSelenium and need help please. Please be aware that I have checked permissions to crawl this page with the robotstxt package. library(RSelenium) libr...

It seems this is a recurrent question, but I haven't found the solution to my problem. I am running the following: link <- 'https://www.google.com/' rD <- rsDriver(verbose = TRUE, port=45...

I'm trying to run RSelenium using the rsDriver function, but when I run rD <- rsDriver() I get a message telling me I need a newer version of Chrome: > rD <- rsDriver() checking Seleni...

Trying to utilize Selenium and R to do some web scraping. I have a number of questions but need to trouble shoot where exactly to start. This is where I think I'm running into the issues... Is this...

I put together a crude scraper that scrapes prices/airlines from Expedia: # Start the Server rD <- rsDriver(browser = "phantomjs", verbose = FALSE) # Assign the client remDr <- rD$client ...

I faced such an issue: i have Rscript that uses RSelenium to navigate pages, click buttons and collect data. I included this script as a function in my shinyApp. When I run it from my machine every...

Hello :) I'm trying to automate downloading spreadsheets from XYZ website. The code works well, goes through authorization without problem and downloads the file. But, when I try to change the down...

I am trying to click an input object on a webpage using a JS call. First, I'm using RSelenium to pull up the page: library(RSelenium) rD <- rsDriver(port = 4444L, verbose = FALSE) remDr <- ...

I'm using Rselenium to navigate to a webpage. The following code is doing so. I haven't provided the url because I'm using the url in a company which needs vpn to connect: RSelenium::startServer()...

I am using latest version of R on windows 7. I would like to run many test in parallel using RSelenium so, my question is: What is the recommended way to run many RSelenium tests? Let's say I...

I would like to extract information about each ad in this link. Now, I got to the stage where I can automatically click See Ad Details, but there is much underlying data that is not straightforward...

I am trying to do a charge test with RSelenium on my deployed Shiny application. Several users connect to the adress and do random tasks at the same time. I have searched doParallel but the number...

I am using RSelenium to navigate towards a webpage which contains a button to download a file. I use RSelenium to click this button which downloads the file. However, the files are by default downl...

I am converting some of my web-scraping code from R to Python (I can't get geckodriver to work with R, but it's working with Python). Anyways, I am trying to understand how to parse and read HTML t...