Simulate a session in an html browser.

Simulate a session in an html browser.

html_session(url, ...)

is.session(x)

Arguments

url	Location to start session
...	Any additional httr config to use throughout session.
x	An object to test to see if it's a session.

Methods

A session object responds to a combination of httr and html methods: use httr::cookies(), httr::headers(), and httr::status_code() to access properties of the request; and html_nodes() to access the html.

Examples

# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15853204

s <- html_session("http://hadley.nz")
s %>% jump_to("hadley-wickham.jpg") %>% jump_to("/") %>% session_history()
#>   http://hadley.nz/
#>   http://hadley.nz/hadley-wickham.jpg
#> - http://hadley.nz/
s %>% jump_to("hadley-wickham.jpg") %>% back() %>% session_history()
#> - http://hadley.nz/
#>   http://hadley.nz/hadley-wickham.jpg
# \donttest{
s %>% follow_link(css = "p a")
#> Navigating to http://rstudio.com
#> <session> https://rstudio.com/
#>   Status: 200
#>   Type:   text/html; charset=UTF-8
#>   Size:   72787
# }