Differences between html nodes and html node

Question

What is the difference between html_nodes( ) and html_node( )? How to read from html_page?

Answer 1

Pallava, both the functions return nodes from HTML elements using CSS or Xpath.

html_nodes() return a list of matching nodes whereas html_node( ) return a single html node according to CSS Oor Xpath.

Both the functions have similar syntax

html_nodes(x, css, xpath)
html_node(x, css, xpath)

For more information, check out the documentation here.

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rvest/versions/0.3.4/topics/html_nodes