Read a live HTML document — read_html.selenider

xml2::read_html() can be used on a selenider session to read the HTML of the entire page, or on a selenider element to get the HTML of that element.

Usage

read_html.selenider_session(
  x,
  encoding = "",
  ...,
  options = c("RECOVER", "NOERROR", "NOBLANKS")
)

read_html.selenider_element(
  x,
  encoding = "",
  timeout = NULL,
  outer = TRUE,
  ...,
  options = c("RECOVER", "NOERROR", "NOBLANKS")
)

Arguments

x: A selenider_session/selenider_element object.
encoding, ..., options: Passed into xml2::read_html().
timeout: How long to wait for x to exist in the DOM before throwing an error.
outer: Whether to read the inner (all children of the current element) or outer (including the element itself) HTML of x.

Value

read_html() returns an XML document. Note that HTML will always be wrapped in a <html> and <body> tag, if it isn't already.

Examples

library(rvest)

html <- "
<div>
<p>Example text</p>
</div>
"

session <- minimal_selenider_session(html)

read_html(session)
read_html(s("div"))