The function I created isnt giving an output after I have scrapped the pdf from the web

[Techzill]

Hi community,

I have been trying to scrape links and published date from a pdf in a website using rvest but the functions I wrote keeps returning itself without giving out result. I want my functions to run without returning just the functions to me

# Load Packages ------

pacman::p_load(

# Data Wrangling

tidyverse, lubridate, magrittr,

# Web scraping

rvest, xopen,

# Text data mining

readtext, tidytext,
quanteda, textclean
)

search_pages <- c("[https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Documents/quarterlyecoreports.aspbeginrec=1&endrec=20&keyword=&from=&tod= ](https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Documents/quarterlyecoreports.aspbeginrec=1&endrec=20&keyword=&from=&tod=)", "[https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Documents/quarterlyecoreports.aspbeginrec=21&endrec=40&keyword=&from=&tod= ](https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Documents/quarterlyecoreports.aspbeginrec=21&endrec=40&keyword=&from=&tod=)") %>% tibble(page = .) %>%
print()

# Create a function to grab the links

get_links <- function(page){

# page <- search_pages %>% pull(page) %>% .[1] %>% read_html()

page <- search_pages %>% read_html()

# Create a table of extracted data

page_tbl <- tibble(

# Get Title

```
  title = page %>% 
    html_nodes('.dbasetable a') %>% 
    html_text2() %>% 
    str_remove_all(
      "(CBN )|(Economic Report)|(for )|(the )|(Published\\s\\d+/\\d+/\\d+)|(of)") %>% 
    str_squish(),
  
  # Get Published Date
  date = page %>% 
    html_nodes('#publishedDt') %>% #
    html_text2() %>% 
    str_squish() %>% 
    str_replace("Published ", "") %>% 
    str_extract("\\d+/\\d+/\\d+") %>% 
    mdy() %>% 
    format(., format = "%Y%m%d"),
  
  # Get the download links
  links = page %>%
    html_nodes('.dbasetable a') %>%
    html_attr("href") %>% 
    str_replace("^(\\.\\.)", "") %>% 
    str_c("https://www.cbn.gov.ng", .)
```

)
return(links)
}

Thank you

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