Data scraping

1. 1. 1. APES Atlas Web Scraper

1. The following R code extracts data from the standardized APES Atlas tables.
2. The functions below need to be loaded into R.

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rm(list=ls())

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2. Install & load packages
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4. install.packages("plyr")
5. install.packages("writexl")
6. install.packages("jsonlite")
7. install.packages("httr2")

library(httr2) library(jsonlite) library(writexl) library(plyr)

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2. Load functions from Github
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source("https://github.com/lakik/apesatlas_scraping/raw/refs/heads/main/script")

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2. Define the path to save the results
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path_to_save = "D:/Users/lkulik/Senckenberg Dropbox/Lars Kulik/APES/APES Wiki/Test/"

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2. Run scraper function
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scrape_apesatlas(path_to_save,api_url)

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