[R] html into R

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Nick,

A better solution is to add "&format=json" to the URL. Then the query
returns the data in JSON format.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus / Statistician

Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
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FOREST
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Op vr 26 aug. 2022 om 10:44 schreef Nick Wray <nickmwray using gmail.com>:

> hello - I need to download flow data for Scottish river catchments.  The
> data is available from the Scottish Environmental protection Agency body
> and that doesn't present a problem.  For example the API beneath will
> access the 96 flow recordings on the River Tweed on Jan 1st 2020 at one
> station:
>
>
> https://timeseries.sepa.org.uk/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&datasource=0&request=getTimeseriesValues&ts_path=1/14972/Q/15m.Cmd&from=2020-01-01&to=2020-01-07&returnfields=Timestamp,Value,Quality%20Code
>
>
> But this data comes as HTML.  I can copy and paste it into a text doc which
> can then be read into R but that's slow and time-consuming.  I have tried
> using the package "rvest" to import the HTML into R but I have got nowhere.
>
> Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to do this?
>
>
> Thanks Nick Wray
>
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