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Data scraping

From The APES Atlas
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### APES Atlas Web Scraper  

# The following R code extracts data from the standardized APES Atlas tables.
# The following code must be loaded into R.
# It will take about two minutes for the results to be scraped and saved.

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rm(list=ls())
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# Install & load packages
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install.packages("plyr")
install.packages("writexl")
install.packages("jsonlite")
install.packages("httr2")
library(httr2)
library(jsonlite)
library(writexl)
library(plyr)
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# Load functions from Github
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source("https://github.com/lakik/apesatlas_scraping/raw/refs/heads/main/script")
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# Define the path to save the results
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path_to_save = "YOUR_PATH"  # change accordingly (e.g. "D:/Users/APESATLAS/")
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# Run scraper function
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scrape_apesatlas(path_to_save)
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