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Click download button after setting a form with rvest in R

I am trying to make a semi-automatic app for downloading a pdf from a webpage, where data are set on a form automatically, then users have to solve a captcha and lastly a pdf should be downloaded, but I don’t know how to replicate the click on the download button, I guess there may be an easy solution without the need for running a selenium server, this is the code all the way to uploading the form, presenting the captcha and receiving the users input:

Click download button after setting a form with rvest in R

I am trying to make a semi-automatic app for downloading a pdf from a webpage, where data are set on a form automatically, then users have to solve a captcha and lastly a pdf should be downloaded, but I don’t know how to replicate the click on the download button, I guess there may be an easy solution without the need for running a selenium server, this is the code all the way to uploading the form, presenting the captcha and receiving the users input:

Trouble scraping links from a web page with rvest

New to web scraping so forgive the basic question, but I’m trying to scrape film URLs from lists on Letterboxd and having some issues. Using this list as an example, I was able to find the link location in the HTML here:

html_nodes always return {xml_nodeset (0)}

I’m trying to scrape this page with the rvest R package: https://www.bienici.com/recherche/achat/dessin-669cc780ec9a6600b7687ce8/2-pieces?prix-max=260000&surface-min=40&surface-max=55&neuf=non&mode=liste&tri=publication-desc
But I can’t retrieve the elements by id, class or Xpath, the results is always {xml_nodeset (0)}. I don’t know why habitually it works well.

Web scraping from Uniprot using R

I want to scrape from a Uniprot webpage like this http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q4DQV8 the strings that starts with “Tc00” (in this case “Tc00.1047053511911.60”) using R. I’ve tried the following but the function read_html() doesn’t retrieve me any data I can like that.

Webscraping Pro Football Reference

I am trying to webscrape the Defence Table from the following page: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202402110kan.htm