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>