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Asked: 2026-06-14T12:35:33+00:00

I would like to scrape the contents of this web page using the XML

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I would like to scrape the contents of this web page using the XML package and htmlParse: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=products. However the link I am passing to htmlParse gives me a Bad Request error. What am I missing?

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  1. Editorial Team
    require(RCurl)
require(XML)
iburl<-'http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=products'
ua<-'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0'
ibdata<-getURL(iburl,useragent=ua)
htmlParse(ibdata)
readHTMLTable(ibdata)

    It looks like it is checking the user agent.

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