Tracking Fedex Data

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I am using package "xml2' and "rvest" to do data scarping for FedEx tracking data, however it seems i have some issue, here is the example

link <- "https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=772186019667"
w <- read_html(link)
table <- w %>% html_nodes("table")

The table results a list of 0

The same logic i apply to do data scarping for UPS tracking data and it works just fine

link <- "https://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?track=yes&trackNums=1Z2VW4420300525593"
w <- read_html(link)
table <- w %>% html_nodes("table")

This table results a list of 9

I don't know where are the problems, can anyone please help me to solve this?

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Hi, from your description I would say the problem is not with R, but with how Fedex is doing things vs how UPS are doing it.

As a suggestion, take a look at RSelenium package. It might be helpful in your case.

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