Is rvest safe to use?

rvest has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.0.5). DepScope rates its health at 51/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of rvest?

The latest version of rvest is 1.0.5, released 2025-08-29.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of rvest.

No, rvest is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.0.5 (2025-08-29).

DepScope has no curated alternatives for rvest at this time.

rvest is licensed under MIT + file LICENSE.

cranv1.0.5

Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages. Wrappers around the 'xml2' and 'httr' packages to make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.

License MIT + file LICENSE0 versions1 maintainers9 deps125,933 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 51/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

14/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

1,517

single active maintainer 3m

Dependencies (9)

API access

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First published · 2025-08-29 14:51:38

Last updated · 2025-08-29T13:00:02+00:00