newbie here. I'm moving first steps in R world and I'm actually trying understand how to login into a website (this is necessary to me to scrape data, but one step at time). I tried to search a lot for a simple question like this but everytime I get really specific questions or particular issues I'm not able to completely understand and I need the basis. So, please excuse me, but since I've searched a lot without results I hope you can help me.
I need to login in this website http://bit.do/#login/admin and stay logged for scraping private data. I tried this way:
library (rvest)
url <-"http://bit.do/#login/admin"
pgsession <-html_session(url)
pgform <-html_form(pgsession)[[1]]
filled_form <- set_values(pgform,
'username' = "MY_USERNAME",
'password' = "MY_PASSWORD")
submit_form(pgsession,filled_form)
But I get:
Submitting with 'NULL'
Error in xml2::url_absolute(form$url, session$url) :
Not compatible with STRSXP: [type=NULL].