Scraping javascript website in R -


i want scrape match time , date url:

http://www.scoreboard.com/game/rosol-l-goffin-d-2014/8drhx07d/#game-summary

by using chrome dev tools, can see appears generated using following code:

<td colspan="3" id="utime" class="mstat-date">01:20 am, october 29, 2014</td> 

but not in source html.

i think because java (correct me if im wrong). how can scrape information using r?

so, rselenium not answer (anymore). if can install phantomjs binary (grab phantomjs binaries here: http://phantomjs.org/) can use render html , scrape rvest (similar rselenium approach doesn't require java):

library(rvest)  # render html site phantomjs  url <- "http://www.scoreboard.com/game/rosol-l-goffin-d-2014/8drhx07d/#game-summary"  writelines(sprintf("var page = require('webpage').create(); page.open('%s', function () {     console.log(page.content); //page source     phantom.exit(); });", url), con="scrape.js")  system("phantomjs scrape.js > scrape.html")  # extract content need pg <- html("scrape.html") pg %>% html_nodes("#utime") %>% html_text()  ## [1] "10:20 am, october 28, 2014" 

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