TidyX Episode 162: Advanced Shiny – Web Scraping & Dynamic Linking

Ellis Hughes and I have been working on some advanced shiny tutorials. This week, we show how you can dynamically link to a webpage via your shiny server, have the server scrape the web page for the defined user query and then return the results back to them. We do this using NHL data provided by the folks at www.hockey-reference.com.

To watch our screen cast, CLICK HERE.

To access our code, CLICK HERE.