ham-radio-licenses/bin/scrape-arrl-fcc.R

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library(rvest)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
arrl_url <- "https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts"
# Read the page
d_raw <- read_html(arrl_url)
# Get date
date_raw <- d_raw %>%
html_nodes(xpath = "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/p[2]/em") %>%
# Get date
html_text() %>%
gsub(".*, ","",.) %>%
as.Date(format = "%d-%b-%Y")
# Get table and clean up
tab <- d_raw %>%
html_nodes(xpath="/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/table") %>%
html_table() %>%
.[[1]] %>%
# Add date col
bind_cols(Date = date_raw, .) %>%
# Insert Tech Plus for compatibility
mutate("Tech-Plus" = NA,
.before = General)
# Append table
write.table(tab, file = "out/arrl-fcc-licenses-scraped.csv", sep = ",",
append = TRUE, quote = FALSE,
col.names = TRUE, row.names = FALSE)
# Clean up table to remove any duplicates (sometimes the page isn't updated regularly)
db <- read.csv("out/arrl-fcc-licenses-scraped.csv")
db2 <- db %>% distinct(.keep_all = TRUE) %>%
filter(Date != "Date")
write.csv(db2, "out/arrl-fcc-licenses-scraped.csv",
quote = F,
row.names = F)