Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in httr

How to Build a Super Simple HTTP Proxy in R in just 20 lines of code

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 1, 2023

Build a basic HTTP proxy server in R using httpuv and httr packages. Learn how to handle IP blocking with a rotating proxy service.

Scraping Yelp Business Listings using R

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Dec 6, 2023

Web scraping with proxies for data analysis on Yelp listings using R, httr, and rvest libraries.

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