In this R tutorial, We’ll learn how to schedule an R script as a CRON Job using Github Actions. Thanks to Github Actions, You don’t need a dedicated server for this kind of automation and scheduled tasks. This example can be extended for Automated Tweets or Automated Social Media Posts, Daily Data Extraction of any sort.
If you need to download dynamic website take a look on website-scraper-puppeteer or website-scraper-phantom. Roll back osx update. This module is an Open Source Software maintained by one developer in free time. If you want to thank the author of this module you can use Patreon. You can use the command line application to get your tweets stored to JSON right away. Twitterscraper takes several arguments:-h or -help Print out the help message and exits.
In this example, We’re going to use a code to extract / scrape Nifty50 (Indian Stock Exchange Index) Top Gainers Daily and store it as a csv
file which can be used for Data Analytics on those stocks.
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Github Actions which usually trigger a script based on event like PR, Issue Creation can be modified using its YAML to trigger a script on a schedule (CRON). Deezer kodi.
Here’s the main.yml
file used for the Github Action.
Look at this repo for more details of the code used for Scraping - https://github.com/amrrs/scrape-automation
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For more details on Github Actions for R Scripts, Refer this R OpenSci Book - https://ropenscilabs.github.io/actions_sandbox/ Update mac os 10.11.
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