Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining

General index

• AJAX
• Amazon
• AP v. Meltwater
• APIs
  • advantages and disadvantages
  • REST
  • SOAP
  • when and how to use
  • with R
• ASCII
• Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, see AJAX
• Authentication
• Authorization

• Base64
• Berners-Lee, Tim
• beta.congress.gov
• Binary format
• Bots, see Web robots
• Boyce, Raymond F.

• CA certificate
• Carriage return
• Cascading Style Sheets, see CSS
• Chamberlin, Donald D.
• Character encoding
• Closing tag, see End tag
• Closure function
• Codd, Edgar F.
• Cookies
• CRAN
• Crawlers, see Web robots
• Cron
• CSS
• CSV
• curl
• Curl handle
• curl.haxx.se

• Data
  • collection costs
  • cleansing
  • collection automation
  • quality
  • science
  • storage
  • types
• Data project management
  • control structures
  • error and exception handling
  • file system management
  • for-loops
  • messages
  • processing multiple documents
  • progress bars
  • scheduling
  • while-loops
  • writing functions
• Databases
  • advanced features
  • combined keys
  • DBMS
  • foreign keys
  • in R
  • keys
  • normal forms
  • normalization
  • ODBC
  • primary keys
  • query
  • RDBMS
  • redundancy and exclusiveness
  • relations
  • storage
  • tables
  • views
• Deep link
• DNS
• DOCTYPE, see DTD
• Document Object Model, see DOM
• Document Type Definition, see DTD
• DOM
  • parsing, see Parsing
  • validation
• DTD
• Dynamic HTML, see AJAX

• eBay v. Bidder's Edge
• Eich, Brendan
• Election Markup Language (EML)
• Encoding, see Character encoding
• End tag
• Extensible Markup Language, see XML

• Facebook
• Facebook v. Pete Warden
• Fielding, Roy
• FTP
  • commands
  • extended passive mode
  • FTP archives on the Web

• Geographical data
• GET
• GitHub
• Google
• gzip

• Hostname ...