Reading HTML tables in R if login and other previous actions are required

Question

I am using XML package to read HTML tables from web sites.

Actually I'm trying to read a table from a local address, something like http://10.35.0.9:8080/....

To get this table I usually have to login into by typing login and password.

Therefore, when I run:

library(XML)
acsi.url <- 'http://10.35.0.9:8080/...'
acsi.df <- readHTMLTable(acsi.url, header = T, stringsAsFactors = F)
acsi.df

I see acsi.df isn't my table but the login page.

How can I tell R to input login and password and loggin on before reading the table?

if [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4980912/username-and-password-in-https-url) doesn't help, please provide an example url we can use :) — Anthony Damico, Dec 18 '12 at 13:07
Hi, Anthony Damico. Unfortunately the login page I'm trying to enter via R runs through my LAN, then I cannot provide you it. — Lisa Ann, Dec 18 '12 at 15:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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There is no general solution, you have to analyze the details of you login procedure, but package RCurl and the following link should help:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Dec 18 '12 at 13:06

Dieter Menne

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