The buttons just link to .xls files. So, you could use the URL of the page that the button points to, and use that URL as an input to a script / function that does the scraping. There are plenty of packages like rcurl
that you could use to manage the download.
Is there an R function to click a download button?
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27-09-2022 - |
Question
I'm trying to write some programs to download a lot of economic data (on the order of hundreds of distinct tables from different websites, that'd need to be updated frequently). Take this website:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/country-statistical-profiles-key-tables-from-oecd_20752288
I want an R program to be able to click on one of those little green buttons that will download an xls file, so I don't have to click it by hand. Is there a package / function in R for this type of thing? (And if not, is there another simple-ish way to do it?)
Thanks!
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