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As we just saw, the next step after using bow() is to scrape(). Scraping a single page requires only these two functions:

dat <-
  bow("https://scrapethissite.com/pages/simple") |> 
  scrape()

Now we have this data downloaded as a data object, dat. It is good practice to store this website as an object in our R environment, rather than piping the results into a data extraction function. The offline copy in our environment allows us to practice with CSS selectors without sending repeated requests to the website.