Penelope Bilton wrote:
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Example:

tt <- "https://www.gofundme.com/f/baba039s-brave-battle-i-can-breathe"

> html_nodes(read_html(tt),".a-image--background")

{xml_nodeset (1)} [1] <div class="a-image a-image--background" style="background-image:url(https://images.gofundme.com/OBX ...

I can't get any further than this. I don't know how to extract the information from the html_nodes object.

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Hello,

I think the R package xml2 will help here.

First save the html_nodes to an object:

> nodes <- html_nodes(read_html(tt),".a-image--background")

Then look at its attributes:

> xml_attrs(nodes)

[[1]]
                                                                                                                                                     class                                                                                                                    "a-image a-image--background"
                                                                                                                                                     style
"background-image:url(https://images.gofundme.com/OBX8u6ExqYkPs9mGp_zXCI-VYY4=/720x405/https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/28360424_15211039920_r.jpeg)" 

It seems you want the content under attribute "style":

> xml_attr(nodes,"style")

[1] "background-image:url(https://images.gofundme.com/OBX8u6ExqYkPs9mGp_zXCI-VYY4=/720x405/https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/28360424_15211039920_r.jpeg)"

This is just text and you can proceed to extract information with your favourite regexp method. Does this help?

Regards,

Jason