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Text Analytics Using R - Part C: Extraction of Samsung S4 white reviews from Amazon.com and Amazon. India

Hi Folks!! Welcome to the 3rd part of the series where we would be extracting the reviewers name , date , rating and review for the product galaxy s4 The given below is the code to extract for the .com and .in and combining them into the new datafile Code: --library(RCurl) --library(XML) --library(rvest) --init <- "http://www.amazon.in/Samsung-Galaxy-S4-GT-I9500-White/product  reviews/B00CL4HXQC" --crawlCandicate = "ref=cm_cr_pr_btm_link_" --base <- "http://www.amazon.in" --num <- 3 --doclist <- list() --anchorlist <- vector() --j <- 0 --while(j<num){ -- if(j==0){ --doclist[j+1] <- getURL(init) -- } else{ --doclist[j+1] <- getURL(paste(base,anchorlist[j+1],sep = "")) -- }  --  doc <- htmlParse(doclist[[j+1]])   --anchor <- getNodeSet(doc,"//a") # capture all the 'a' tags which contains all the    --anchor <- sapply(anchor,function(x) xmlGetAttr(x,"href"))  ...

Text Analytics Using R - Part B: Extraction of reviews of movie martian from imdb website

The main aim of this blog is to understand how to extract movie reviews of martian from IMDB website.  IMDB website is very famous for rating of the movies Again the pattern followed here -- which means start of the code 1) - -library(rvest) --library(RCurl) --library(XML) --library(dplyr) The main aim of  the above mentioned code is to load the above libraries . RCurl and XML rvest -  Wrappers around the 'xml2' and 'httr' packages to make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.(Ref:https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rvest/rvest.pdf) Dplyr package:A fast, consistent tool for working with data frame like objects, both in memory and out of memory.(Ref:https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/dplyr.pdf) 2) --init <- "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/reviews?filter=best" --crawlCandicate <- "reviews\\?filter=best" --base = "www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/" --num = 10 --doclist = list() --anchorl...

Text Analytics Using R - Part A: Extraction of reviews of galaxy s4 product reviews in flipkart

Hi Folks!! This is my first blog in the series where I would love to share my experimentation with text analytics using R.. The initial 3 parts we would concentrate our efforts towards scrapping or extraction of reviews of samsung s4 product from the flipkart. We would be understanding the code bit by bit to get a hang of it and make it simpler to follow for a novice who is just enticed and want to start afresh here. When I am starting with -- this means R code  1) R is an open source platform and in case you want to have added functionalities you load the library --library(RCurl) --library(XML) RCurl:    Provides functions to allow one to compose general HTTP requests and provides convenient functions to fetch URIs, get & post forms, etc. and process the results returned by the Web server.  ( Ref:  https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RCurl/index.html) XML:This collection of functions allow us to add, remove and replace children from an X...