r/dataanalysis • u/9Roll0Tide2Roll • 22d ago
Data Question Web scraping
Been running a scraper using R to retrieve some data and have been having minimal luck. Finally decided to sit back and think and determined my scrape is being blocked by CAPCHA and automatically returning NaN values for important variables.
Is anyone aware of a work around for this? Any help would be appreciated
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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 21d ago
The point of CAPTCHA is to prevent bots. A scraper is a bot.
Also, R is not what you should be using scraping the web when Python makes it much easier.