tidyverse/rvest

Simple web scraping for R observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/tidyverse/rvest · homepage · R · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

43/100

Activity 41
Release rhythm 13
Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: n/a
age_days: 4424
days_rel: 369
days_push: 358
n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1520 stars · 348 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

rvest is an R package from the tidyverse for scraping (harvesting) data from web pages, inspired by Beautiful Soup and RoboBrowser. It provides functions to read HTML, select elements via CSS selectors or XPath, extract text and attributes, and parse HTML tables into tibbles, with live-browser scraping support via read_html_live().

Use cases

scrape data from html web pages in r
extract tables from a website into a data frame
parse html with css selectors or xpath in r
scrape javascript-rendered pages with r
harvest product or article data from multiple pages
extract text and attributes from html elements

When to choose

you're working in R and want a Beautiful Soup-like scraping experience
you need to extract structured data or tables from static HTML pages
you want tidyverse-pipe-friendly web scraping code
you need to scrape pages that require clicking or scrolling via a live browser session

When to avoid

you need a scraping framework in Python or another language
you require large-scale distributed crawling with built-in politeness and scheduling
you need to scrape sites with heavy anti-bot protections or login flows beyond simple interactions
you want a general-purpose HTTP client rather than an HTML extraction tool

Facets

library · maturity active

web-scraping parser http-client web-development data-science crawlers cross-platform html-parsing css-selectors xpath tidyverse r-package beautiful-soup-inspired html-tables live-browser-scraping data-engineering r

3 sources

readme: https://github.com/tidyverse/rvest · fetched 2026-08-28 · bb1fd5ca3b2c
homepage: https://rvest.tidyverse.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1bda1685bcef
site_page: https://rvest.tidyverse.org/news/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · ebf30aad5350

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
tidyverse/rvest	main	43

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="tidyverse/rvest")

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