R: Download image using rvest

Question

I\'m attempting to download a png image from a secure site through R.

To access the secure site I used Rvest which worked well.

So

Answer 1

Try this example below:

library(rvest); library(dplyr)

url <- "http://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/new-discoveries-an-alaskan-butterfly-a-spider-physicist-and-more"
webpage <- html_session(url)
link.titles <- webpage %>% html_nodes("img")

img.url <- link.titles[13] %>% html_attr("src")

download.file(img.url, "test.jpg", mode = "wb")

You now have "test.jpg" which is the picture: