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Select all children of a list

Given the following ordered list (using the ol element), which is stored as list_raw_html:


  1. Learn HTML
  2. Learn CSS
  3. Learn R
  4. Scrape everything!*

*Do it responsibly!


In this exercise, you'll learn to apply the rvest function that allows you to directly select children of a certain node.

This exercise is part of the course

Web Scraping in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Read in the corresponding HTML string
list_html <- ___
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