Downloading Bill HTML files from Congress Website

Downloading Bill Information from US Congress Website.

scrapeBill(url, progress = TRUE)

Arguments

url	A character object of Bill Summary Page URL (e.g., https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/247)
progress	If TRUE(default), show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.

Value

A (or a list of) scrapeBill object(s) that contains two xml_document objects.

• info: contains meta information of the bill

• text: contains full texts of the bill

See also

getBill, read_scrapeBill, and write_scrapeBill

Examples

tgturl <- "https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/247"
bill247 <- scrapeBill(tgturl)