Introduce yourself to the host

bow(
  url,
  user_agent = "polite R package - https://github.com/dmi3kno/polite",
  delay = 5,
  force = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

is.polite(x)

Arguments

url	URL
user_agent	character value passed to user agent string
delay	desired delay between scraping attempts. Final value will be the maximum of desired and mandated delay, as stipulated by `robots.txt` for relevant user agent
force	refresh all memoised functions. Clears up `robotstxt` and `scrape` caches. Default is `FALSE`
verbose	TRUE/FALSE
...	other curl parameters wrapped into `httr::config` function
x	object of class `polite`, `session`

Value

object of class polite, session

Examples

# \donttest{
 library(polite)

 host <- "https://www.cheese.com"
 session <- bow(host)
 session
#> <polite session> https://www.cheese.com
#>     User-agent: polite R package - https://github.com/dmi3kno/polite
#>     robots.txt: 0 rules are defined for 1 bots
#>    Crawl delay: 5 sec
#>   The path is scrapable for this user-agent
# }