My question is actually the same as the one asked here : Scraping html table and its href Links in R
But the solution provided does not work in my case...or there is something I didn't understand... In my case, the webpage has more than a table and I don't know how to target a specific table with the solution provided in the other question...
For example in this webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League, how would I focus on the table "All time top scorers"? How would I get the links for the columns "Player","Country" and "Club(s)"?
I tried something like
links = read_html("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League") %>%
html_nodes(xpath = '//*[@id="mw-content-text"]/div/table[5]')%>%
html_nodes(xpath = '//td/a')%>% html_attr("href")
But it keeps giving me other links.
Besides, there is another difficulty that some names are in bold here and some are not...