Scrape CRAN Package URLs?

[daranzolin]

What is the fastest way to obtain all the URLs of packages on CRAN? For example, the URL for the htmlwidgets package is: "https://github.com/ramnathv/htmlwidgets". Is there a more efficient way than just scraping these off each individual package page?

Version:	1.5.1
Imports:	grDevices, htmltools (≥ 0.3), jsonlite (≥ 0.9.16), yaml
Suggests:	knitr (≥ 1.8)
Enhances:	shiny (≥ 1.1)
Published:	2019-10-08
Author:	Ramnath Vaidyanathan [aut, cph], Yihui Xie [aut], JJ Allaire [aut], Joe Cheng [aut, cre], Kenton Russell [aut, cph], RStudio [cph]
Maintainer:	Joe Cheng
BugReports:	https://github.com/ramnathv/htmlwidgets/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/ramnathv/htmlwidgets
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	htmlwidgets results

[nirgrahamuk]

library(tidyverse)
pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() 

(htmlw <- pdb %>% filter(Package=="htmlwidgets") %>% pull(URL))
#[1] "https://github.com/ramnathv/htmlwidgets"