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minimaxir on Nov 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rvest: Easy web scraping with R

Will this work with https websites?

One of the reasons I learned Python for data scraping was that R in general does not play nice with https (RCurl requires a certificate and even then it's pretty fussy)

hadley on Nov 24, 2014 [–]

Yes. It uses httr which wraps RCurl in such a way that everything should just work.

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