Jazzy Scraping与R和没有选择器

时间:2018-05-25 21:26:29

标签: r web-scraping rvest ibm-jazz

我一直在使用rvest来抓取页面,我知道selectorGadget的好处。但是,一个页面的数据没有选择器。下面是HTML的片段。页面is here。我试图在每张爵士专辑中列出人员名单。在下面的HTML片段中,人员数据以“Sonny Rollins,男高音萨克斯......”开头。正如您所看到的,该文本未被任何CSS选择器包围。有关刮掉这个的建议吗?

<h1>Blue Note Records Catalog: 4000 series</h1>
<div id="start-here"><!-- id="start-here" --></div>
<div id="catalog-data">
<h2>Modern Jazz 4000 series (12 inch LP)</h2>
<h3><a href="./album-index/#blp-4001" name="blp-4001">BLP 4001 &nbsp; Sonny         
Rollins - Newk's Time &nbsp; <i>1959</i></a></h3>
Sonny Rollins, tenor sax; Wynton Kelly, piano #1,2,4-6; Doug Watkins, bass     
#1,2,4-6; Philly Joe Jones, drums.
<div class="date">Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, September 22, 
1957</div>
<table width="100%">
<tr><td width="15%">1. tk.5<td>Tune Up

等等...

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

使用xpath提取并使用正则表达式过滤掉元素。以下脚本应该可以工作。

library(rvest)
library(stringr)

texts <- read_html("https://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-4000-series/") %>% 
    html_nodes(xpath = '//*[@id="catalog-data"]/text()') %>%
    html_text()

texts[!str_detect(texts,"(^\\n$)|(^\\n\\*\\*)")] # I just notcie this line doesn't clean up the string entirely, you can figure out better regex.

关于拆分字符串,您可以尝试以下代码:

sample_str <- "\nIke Quebec, tenor sax; Sonny Clark, piano; Grant Green, guitar; Sam Jones, bass; Louis Hayes, drums.\n" 
str_trim(sample_str) %>%
    str_split(",")

返回:

[[1]]
[1] "Ike Quebec"              " tenor sax; Sonny Clark" " piano; Grant Green"     " guitar; Sam Jones"      " bass; Louis Hayes"      " drums."