Package "rvest" for web scraping https site with proxy

Question

I want to scrap a https website, but I failed.

Here is my code:

require(rvest)
url <- "https://www.sunnyplayer.com/de/"
content <- read_html(url)

But I have error in console- "Error in open.connection(x, "rb") : Timeout was reached" How I can fix this problem?

That code runs for me without error. The problem may be specific to your proxy. — Hack-R, Mar 16 '16 at 19:01
I just know that it worked for me without a proxy. Your title mentions that you're using a proxy, so if that's the only difference between your setup and mine, then that must be the problem. — Hack-R, Mar 17 '16 at 17:30

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '16 at 16:06

The same thing happens to me on a proxy. To get around this, use download.file and specify a download location. You can then parse the file with read_html.

download.file(url, destfile = 'C://whatever.html')
content <- read_html('C://whatever.html')

Package "rvest" for web scraping https site with proxy

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