R Web Scraping 'Failed to load HTTP Resource' with XML <p>I have created a function to scrape statistics from individual soccer match reports. I am usually able to use this to scrape stats from hundreds of matches at a time without a problem. However for the past week I have been away visiting family for the holidays cannot run my code at all without receiving the message:</p> <pre><code>Error: failed to load HTTP resource </code></pre> <p>I thought this was just my parents poor internet connection but I am now having the same problem wherever I go around the country!</p> <p>My code starts with creating a vector of match codes for each game:</p> <pre><code>matchid &lt;- c(369835, 369842, 369839, 369836, 369834, 369841) </code></pre> <p>My function is currently as below:</p> <pre><code>GetStats &lt;- function(matchid){ Stats &lt;- NULL for(i in matchid){ urli &lt;- paste("http://www.espnfc.co.uk/gamecast/statistics/id/", i, "/statistics.html", sep="") datai &lt;- readHTMLTable(urli) hometeami &lt;- datai[[1]] awayteami &lt;- datai[[2]] hometeami &lt;- hometeami[1:11,] awayteami &lt;- awayteami[1:11,] matchdatai &lt;- rbind(hometeami, awayteami) matchdatai$match_id &lt;- i matchdatai &lt;- matchdatai[c(14, 1:13)] Stats &lt;- rbind(Stats, matchdatai)} return(Stats) } </code></pre> <p>I then run my function on my individual match codes:</p> <pre><code>MatchStats &lt;- GetStats(matchid) View(MatchStats) </code></pre> <p>But it is at this point that I am now receive the error message.</p> <p>Could someone please help me by helping me understand what might be causing this? As far as I can see nothing has changed in the websites I am trying to scrape. Is it something caused by the internet connections I am now using? Is there a simple fix I can add in to my code to overcome this?</p> <p>As mentioned, I am able to run this on hundreds of matches at once on my own connection at my flat so I am very confused!</p> <p>Thank you in advance</p>