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Web Scraping Tutorial 4- Getting the busy information data from Popular time page from Google

Popular Times

In this blog we will try to scrape the busy text from popular times section in google maps.

Step 0: Importing the libraries

Step 1: Start a headless Firefox browser

driver <- rsDriver( 
    browser = c("firefox"), 
    chromever = NULL, 
    verbose = F, 
    extraCapabilities = list("firefoxOptions" = list(args = list("--headless"))) 
) 
web_driver <- driver[["client"]] 

# This link contains Restaurant links for Cedele
nm<-"cedele restaurant "
ad_url<-str_c("https://www.google.co.id/maps/search/ ",nm)

web_driver$navigate(ad_url)

The page looks like the below image