rm(list=ls()) # load packages library(RCurl) library(XML) for (count in 119:121){ get_search <- function(u) { html <- getURL(u, followlocation = TRUE) # parse html doc = htmlParse(html, asText=TRUE) plain.text <- xpathSApply(doc, "//text()[not(ancestor::script)][not(ancestor::style)][not(ancestor::noscript)][not(ancestor::form)]", xmlValue) V<-cat(paste(plain.text, collapse = " ")) write.table(V,row.names=FALSE) free(doc) return(df) } u<-paste("http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/realestate/reassessments/scripts/Inquiry.asp?action=view&lrsn=55",count,sep="") df <- get_search(u) }