Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Installing RSelenium on Win 8.1

I was asked was it difficult to install and get RSelenium up and running on the windows platform.
It isn't and I made a quick screenr to show you how.


So in summary:



install.packages('RSelenium')
library(RSelenium)
checkForServer()
startServer()
remDr <- remoteDriver()
remDr$open()
remDr$navigate("http://www.google.com/ncr")
remDr$findElement(using = "name", value = "q")
remDr$highlightElement()
webElem$sendKeysToElement(list("R Cran"))
webElem$clearElement()
webElem$sendKeysToElement(list("R Cran", key = "enter"))
remDr$close()
remDr$closeServer()
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29 comments:

  1. darannu29 May 2014 at 08:33

    When I type startServer, it opens a java but it is empty.
    What I have to do ?

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    1. Unknown29 May 2014 at 08:46

      Hi darannu. Yes the latest version of RSelenium writes the log to file in the /bin directory in the RSelenium package. https://github.com/johndharrison/RSelenium/blob/master/R/util.R#L61 so the java screen appears blank but is still working.

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    2. darannu30 May 2014 at 05:55

      I can`t connect phantomjs to R.
      I type:
      remDr <- remoteDriver(browserName = "phantomjs")
      remDr$open()
      but it shows:
      info: driver.version: unknown
      I also type:
      remDr <- remoteDriver(browserName = "C:/Users/annunzid/Desktop/phantomjs-1.9.7-windows/phantomjs.exe")
      but whit the same result.
      What I have to do ?

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    3. Unknown30 May 2014 at 06:13

      Hi darannu,

      phantomjs needs to be in your path. So you would add C:/Users/annunzid/Desktop/phantomjs-1.9.7-windows/ to your path. See the explanation http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9546324/adding-directory-to-path-environment-variable-in-windows.

      Alternatively you can give the path to the phantomjs binary as an argument. In your case that would be:

      remDr <- remoteDriver(browserName = "phantomjs", extraCapabilities = list(phantomjs.binary.path = "C:/Users/annunzid/Desktop/phantomjs-1.9.7-windows/phantomjs.exe"))

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    4. darannu30 May 2014 at 06:51

      It`s ok. Thaksssss

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    5. darannu30 May 2014 at 07:30

      John sorry but I have another question,

      I`m trying to Scrape Flight Ticket Data Using R and Phantomjs, I have seen your code and it work for this webpage :
      http://www.finn.no/reise/flybilletter/resultat?numberOfChildren=0&tripType=roundtrip&requestedDestination=PEK.AIRPORT&requestedReturnDate=15.09.2014&requestedOrigin=OSL.AIRPORT&requestedDepartureDate=01.09.2014&numberOfAdults=1

      but why the same code doesn`t work for this one:

      http://www.skyscanner.it/trasporti/voli/rome/it/voli-piu-economici-da-roma-per-italia.html?rtn=1&oym=1405&iym=1405

      I`m not able to parse the html.

      Thanks in advance

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    6. Unknown30 May 2014 at 10:24

      Hi Darannu,

      This site is checking for the user agent. You can call extra phantomjs settings using
      phantomjs.page.settings.SETTING = VALUE where SETTING is taken from https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/API-Reference-WebPage#webpage-settings. In this case we can set a user agent so the site see us as firefox 29:

      appURL <- "http://www.skyscanner.it/trasporti/voli/rome/it/voli-piu-economici-da-roma-per-italia.html?rtn=1&oym=1405&iym=1405"
      library(RSelenium)
      addCap <- list(phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20120101 Firefox/29.0")
      remDr <- remoteDriver(browserName = "phantomjs"
      , extraCapabilities = addCap)
      remDr$open()
      remDr$navigate(appURL)
      tableElem <- remDr$findElement("id", "browse-data-table")
      xData <- tableElem$getElementAttribute("outerHTML")[[1]]
      xData <- htmlParse(xData, encoding = "UTF-8")
      readHTMLTable(xData)

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    7. darannu3 June 2014 at 08:37

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    8. darannu3 June 2014 at 08:43

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    9. John18 February 2021 at 03:04

      Good idea I have submitted the tutorial for DO to review as a community post... دانلود آهنگ جدید

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  2. Unknown29 May 2014 at 08:46

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  3. alex25 October 2014 at 13:21

    Hi John,
    I am having trouble connecting to PhantomJS using RSelenium on windows 7. Commands typed:

    require(RSelenium)
    RSelenium::startServer()
    remDr <- remoteDriver(browserName = "phantomjs", extraCapabilities = list(phantomjs.binary.path = "C:/Users/home/Desktop/phantomjs-1.9.8-windows/phantomjs.exe"))
    remDr$open()

    $class
    [1] "org.openqa.selenium.UnsupportedCommandException"

    $additionalInformation
    [1] "\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"

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    1. Unknown25 October 2014 at 16:21

      Hi Alex,

      Can you file an issue at https://github.com/ropensci/RSelenium and ill look into it.

      Best Regards

      John Harrison

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  4. ®γσ, ξηg（雷欧）25 December 2014 at 08:50

    There is a connection error.

    ```{r}
    #'devtools::install_github("ropensci/RSelenium")
    #'system('cmd cd Documents')
    #'system('cmd java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar')

    library(RSelenium)
    library(rJava)
    #'RSelenium::checkForServer(update=TRUE)
    RSelenium::startServer()
    Sys.sleep(5)

    webDr <- remoteDriver(browserName='chrome')
    #'webDr <- remoteDriver(browserName="chrome", extraCapabilities = list(chrome.binary.path = "C:/Users/Scibrokes Trading/Documents/chromedriver.exe"))
    #'webDr <- remoteDriver(browserName='firefox')
    webDr$open(silent=TRUE)
    webDr$navigate('https://www.google.com/webhp')
    ```

    Thanks in advance.

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