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    <p>This is not elegant and probably not very robust, but it should work for this case.</p> <p>The first 4 lines after the <code>require</code> calls retrieve the URL and extract the text. The <code>grep</code> returns a <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code> depending on whether the string we are looking for has been found, <code>which</code> converts that to an index in the list. We increment this by 1 because if you look at <code>cleantext</code> you will see that the date updated is the next element in the list after the string "Date Updated". So the <code>+1</code> gets us the element after "Date Updated". The <code>gsub</code> lines just clean up the strings.</p> <p>The problem with the "P27M" is that it is not anchored to anything - it is just free text floating about in an arbitrary position. If you are sure that the price is always going to be a "P" followed by 1 to 3 digits, followed by an "M" AND that you only have one such string in the page, then a grep or regex would work, otherwise tough to get.</p> <pre><code>require(XML) require(RCurl) myurl &lt;- 'http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+classifieds/id/3991016/BEAUTIFUL+AYALA+HEIGHTS+QC+HOUSE+FOR+SALE' mytext &lt;- getURL(myurl) myhtml &lt;- htmlTreeParse(mytext, useInternal = TRUE) cleantext &lt;- xpathApply(myhtml, "//body//text()[not(ancestor::script)][not(ancestor::style)][not(ancestor::noscript)]", xmlValue) cleantext &lt;- cleantext[!cleantext %in% " "] cleantext &lt;- gsub(" "," ", cleantext) date_updated &lt;- cleantext[[which(grepl("Date Updated",cleantext))+1]] date_posted &lt;- cleantext[[which(grepl("Date Posted",cleantext))+1]] date_posted &lt;- gsub("^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$","",date_posted) date_updated &lt;- gsub("^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$","",date_updated) print(date_updated) print(date_posted) </code></pre>
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    1. COHey thanks for the answer. Not what I was expecting but I learned something new.
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    2. COHey I'm sorry but I tried running your script and the output was empty. [link]http://imgur.com/2jlXf&vJ5tI&97BVy&YzoaC
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    3. COHmm, still working here. have you looked at the other answer? That might work for you.
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