wrapper around sendKeysToElement() method to generate safe scraping code

Usage

type(
  using,
  value,
  name = NULL,
  text,
  text_object,
  new_page = FALSE,
  prev = NULL
)

Arguments

using: character string specifying locator scheme to use to search elements. Available schemes: "class name", "css selector", "id", "name", "link text", "partial link text", "tag name", "xpath".
value: character string specifying the search target.
name: character string specifying the object name the RSelenium "wElement" class object should be saved to.If NULL a name will be generated automatically.
text: a character vector specifying the text to be typed.
text_object: a character string specifying the name of an external object holding the text to be typed. Note that the remDr$sendKeysToElement method only accepts list inputs.
new_page: logical indicating if sendKeysToElement() action will result in a change in url.
prev: a placeholder for the output of functions being piped into type(). Defaults to NULL and should not be altered.

Value

a character string defining 'RSelenium' typing instructions that can be pasted into a scraping function.

Examples

if (FALSE) {

#navigate to wikipedia, type "Hello" into the search box,  press enter

parsel::go("https://www.wikipedia.org/") %>>%
parsel::type(using = "id",
             value = "'searchInput'",
             name = "searchbox",
             text = c("Hello","\uE007")) %>>%
             show()

#navigate to wikipeda, type content stored in external object "x" into search box

parsel::go("https://www.wikipedia.org/") %>>%
parsel::type(using = "id",
             value = "'searchInput'",
             name = "searchbox",
             text_object = "x") %>>%
             show()

}