10.25375/uct.6048419.v1
Sean Soutar
Sean
Soutar
Gathering Data from Dynamic Web Forms using RSelenium and Docker
University of Cape Town
2018
SatRdays
SatRday Cape Town
R programming language
Programming
Programming Languages
2018-03-28 11:30:56
Media
https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/articles/media/Gathering_Data_from_Dynamic_Web_Forms_using_RSelenium_and_Docker/6048419
<div>Video recording of Sean Soutar's presentation, entitled "Gathering Data from Dynamic Web Forms using RSelenium and Docker" presented at SatRday Cape Town, UCT, 17 March 2018</div><div><br></div><div>Abstract:</div><div>Scraping data can be difficult especially when dealing with dynamic forms. I present a case study of how I used RSelenium and Docker to simulate a user interacting with a ASP.NET form. This was done on the South African Reserve Bank’s online statistical query to automate file downloads.</div>