Step-by-step web scraping with RSelenium

In this part, we are going to focus on collecting data from Instagram by using RSelenium. First of all, we are going to navigate the URL of the Instagram post, and collects comments and parses comments to detect users who put comments and users who are mentioned.

Collecting data with RSelenium

Let's start collecting data from Instagram by using the RSelenium library. First of all, we have to load the RSelenium library using the following command:

#loading libraries
 library(RSelenium)

Now we load Selenium drivers and start Selenium. It may take time, so please wait till loading finishes:

#loading drivers and starting selenium
 rD <- rsDriver()
 remDr <- rD[["client"...