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BBC scrape

Overview

Project scraping BBC.com's 'most read' table (every 5 minutes) and visualizing what's popular (and for how long).

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  • The raw scrapes are in the scrapes folder, saved as .zip files by date span.
  • Using the web_post_single_topic.R script, you can make some example plots about specific topics based on keywords.
  • The scrape script used was most_read_scrape_error_catch.R but note that the BBC recently revamped their entire website! It will likely need minor tweaks to the html element selection.

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Scraping the BBC's top 10 most read stories.

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