Mara Averick • 10/17/2017

Goodreads 👍📚 Part 2: rvesting descriptions

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This article details the process of web scraping Goodreads using R's rvest and tidyverse packages. It explains adapting existing code to scrape book descriptions and genres from a personal 'read' shelf, overcoming challenges like pagination and login states, and discusses the limitations of the Goodreads API for this specific task.

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