Very Helpful lesson. I used to use bardeen with excel for webscraping, but with RStudio has more functions to play with and is facinating. Thanks for sharing knowledge.
I am having the same issue someone noted - using the imdb page- when I hover over the title for example, I get the orange box. When I click it, it clicks through the link and opens it. Does this extension no longer work?
Hey, I've been doing some testing and the extension is working fine with other sites. IMDb looks like they have done an update and it makes the selector work randomly. You can still right click and inspect the html for each section though, but that gives you that part but you need the extension to quickly work out the parent it sits in so you don't have to get titles 1 by 1. To avoid the hyperlink issue, hover to the edge of the box around the title, bottom left worked best, and it lets you select the title without going into the hyperlink.
Is the issue that when you click on the hyperlink it takes you through to the linked page and not select the area? Are you seeing the orange box when you are having over parts of the page with selector gadget on? I had a play around with a few hyperlinks and they were selecting without clicking through. What web page and link are you trying to select?
Only need it to turn green to give you the section you need, but if other areas show as yellow, and you don't want that yellow area data, click on them first to turn them red so you don't get that data too.
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This is really good, you've really explained it brilliantly
Very Helpful lesson. I used to use bardeen with excel for webscraping, but with RStudio has more functions to play with and is facinating. Thanks for sharing knowledge.
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful 😀
SelectorGadget is very nice indead.
This video is helpful. I came here because I want to scrap some ebay data using RStudio
Glad it helped 😀
Thank you! It was really helpfull!
Glad it helped 🙂
I am having the same issue someone noted - using the imdb page- when I hover over the title for example, I get the orange box. When I click it, it clicks through the link and opens it. Does this extension no longer work?
Hey, I've been doing some testing and the extension is working fine with other sites. IMDb looks like they have done an update and it makes the selector work randomly.
You can still right click and inspect the html for each section though, but that gives you that part but you need the extension to quickly work out the parent it sits in so you don't have to get titles 1 by 1.
To avoid the hyperlink issue, hover to the edge of the box around the title, bottom left worked best, and it lets you select the title without going into the hyperlink.
So when I use Selectorgadget is takes me to the link, how do I just highlight it instead?
Is the issue that when you click on the hyperlink it takes you through to the linked page and not select the area?
Are you seeing the orange box when you are having over parts of the page with selector gadget on?
I had a play around with a few hyperlinks and they were selecting without clicking through.
What web page and link are you trying to select?
@@DeanChereden im using IMDB, I see the orange box but when I select it only that item turns green or I just go to the link I clicked.
Only need it to turn green to give you the section you need, but if other areas show as yellow, and you don't want that yellow area data, click on them first to turn them red so you don't get that data too.