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### APES Atlas Web Scraper   
### APES Atlas Web Scraper   

Revision as of 22:45, 7 November 2025


### APES Atlas Web Scraper  

# The following R code extracts data from the standardized APES Atlas tables.
# The functions below need to be loaded into R.

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rm(list=ls())
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# Install & load packages
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#install.packages("plyr")
#install.packages("writexl")
#install.packages("jsonlite")
#install.packages("httr2")
library(httr2)
library(jsonlite)
library(writexl)
library(plyr)
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# Load functions from Github
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source("https://github.com/lakik/apesatlas_scraping/raw/refs/heads/main/script")
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# Define the path to save the results
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path_to_save = "D:/Users/lkulik/Senckenberg Dropbox/Lars Kulik/APES/APES Wiki/Test/"
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# Run scraper function
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scrape_apesatlas(path_to_save,api_url)
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