Scraping Google Play Reviews with RSelenium

rOpenSci package or resource used*

RSelenium

What did you do?

Used RSelenium to scrape web reviews for Instagram Lite in order to do text analysis in a future blog post. The package was used to start a remote browser, browse to Google Play, and navigate the semi-infinite scroll and button clicks to load additional reviews.

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My Blog Post

Field(s) of application

Just for fun

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@jlaw67

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