使用 R 和 GET 函数从网站查询数据

Querying data from a website using R and GET function

我是网络抓取的新手,我需要下载在进行查询后出现几次点击的数据。这意味着我需要在第一页填写两个字段,然后点击粗体中的文本,然后识别大写的table数据,并下载它.

我开始使用 GET 函数并将所需名称作为列表添加到 "query" 参数。然而,尽管我是一个老 R 用户,我什至无法破译我得到的错误。

GET("http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/advsearch.do;jsessionid=15925570A99B794122939889DE7DCDBC",path = "search", query =list(Genus="Imperata",Species="cylindrica"))


Response[http://apps.kew.org/search;jsessionid=15925570A99B794122939889DE7DCDBC?      Genus=Imperata&Species=cylindrica]  

日期:2016-04-1818:29
状态:404
内容类型:text/html;字符集=iso-8859-1
尺寸: 445 B


404 未找到

未找到


请求的 URL /search;jsessionid=15925570A99B794122939889DE7DCDBC 未找到 ...

此外,403 禁止
尝试使用 ErrorDocument 处理请求时遇到错误。




Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) 服务器位于 apps.kew.org 端口 80

它可能无法正常工作,因为它是 POST 请求与 GET 请求(您可以使用我的 curlconverter 包来帮助处理这些 "hidden" API,顺便说一句):

library(httr)
library(rvest)

res <- httr::POST(url = "http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/advsearch.do", 
           body = list(page = "advancedSearch", 
                       AttachmentExist = "", 
                       family = "", 
                       placeOfPub = "", 
                       genus = "Imperata", 
                       yearPublished = "", 
                       species = "cylindrica", 
                       author = "", 
                       infraRank = "", 
                       infraEpithet = "", 
                       selectedLevel = "cont"), 
           encode = "form") 


pg <- content(res, as="parsed")

html_text(html_nodes(pg, "a.onwardnav"))

##  [1] "Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr.: 165 (1812)."                                                
##  [2] "Imperata cylindrica var. africana (Andersson) C.E.Hubb., Joint Publ. Imp. Agric. Bur. 7: 10 (1944)."            
##  [3] "Imperata cylindrica var. condensata (Steud.) Hack., Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 21: 9 (1911)."     
##  [4] "Imperata cylindrica var. europaea (Andersson) Asch. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 37 (1898)."            
##  [5] "Imperata cylindrica subsp. koenigii (Retz.) Masamura & Yanagih., Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 31: 326 (1941)."
##  [6] "Imperata cylindrica subvar. koenigii (Retz.) T.Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 694 (1894)."               
##  [7] "Imperata cylindrica var. koenigii (Retz.) Pilg., Fragm. Fl. Philipp. 1: 137 (1904)."                            
##  [8] "Imperata cylindrica var. latifolia (Hook.f.) C.E.Hubb., Joint Publ. Imp. Agric. Bur. 7: 14 (1944)."             
##  [9] "Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb., Grasses Mauritius: 96 (1940)."                                 
## [10] "Imperata cylindrica var. mexicana (Rupr. ex Galeotti) D.B.Ward, Novon 14: 368 (2004)."                          
## [11] "Imperata cylindrica f. pallida Honda, J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 374 (1930)."                   
## [12] "Imperata cylindrica var. parviflora Batt. & Trab., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53: 32 (1906)."                       
## [13] "Imperata cylindrica var. pedicellata (Steud.) Debeaux, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 32: 52 (1878)."                
## [14] "Imperata cylindrica var. thunbergii (Retz.) T.Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 693 (1894), nom. superfl."  

lnks <- html_attr(html_nodes(pg, "a.onwardnav"), "href")

res2 <- GET(sprintf("http://apps.kew.org%s", lnks[1]))
pg2 <- content(res2, as="parsed")

trimws(gsub("[[:space:]]+", " ", html_text(html_nodes(pg2, "th + td"))))

## [1] "Medit. to Africa and Afghanistan 12 BAL COR FRA POR SAR SPA 13 ALB BUL GRC ITA KRI SIC TUE YUG 20 ALG EGY LBY MOR TUN 21 CNY CVI MDR 22 BEN BKN GAM GHA GNB GUI IVO LBR MLI NGA NGR SEN SIE TOG 23 BUR CAF CMN CON EQG GAB GGI RWA ZAI 24 CHA ETH SOC SUD 25 KEN TAN UGA 26 ANG MLW MOZ ZAM ZIM 27 BOT CPP LES NAM NAT OFS SWZ TVL 29 COM MAU MDG (32) kaz kgz tkm tzk uzb (33) ncs tcs 34 AFG CYP EAI IRN IRQ LBS PAL SIN TUR 35 KUW OMA? SAU YEM (36) chc chh chi chm chn chs cht chx (38) jap kor nns oga tai (40) ass ban ehm ind nep pak srl whm (41) and cbd lao mya ncb scs tha vie (42) bor cki jaw lsi mly mol phi sul sum xms (43) bis nwg sol (50) nfk (51) nzn (60) fij nwc sam ton van wal (62) mrn (73) ore (77) tex (78) ala fla geo lou msi sca vrg (79) mxs mxt"
## [2] "Hemicr. or rhizome geophyte"    
## [3] "Poaceae"                                     
## [4] "W.D.Clayton, R.Govaerts, K.T.Harman, H.Williamson & M.Vorontsova"