rvest Package Updates in 2025 - Introducing Live Web Scraping

Video Description

This video walks through some of the latest updates with the rvest package. Things are looking very promising with the addition of the read_html_live function, which allows the end user to interact a lot more with the website, possibly eliminating the need for selenium for many cases. This feature is still experimental at the time of recording this video. Learn more about it here! https://rvest.tidyverse.org/reference/read_html_live.html Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/samer-hijjazi/