Get API data — get_api_data • Rnssp

A wrapper to the get_api_data method defined in the Credentials, Token, and Apikey classes.

get_api_data(url, fromCSV = FALSE, profile = myProfile, ...)

Arguments

url: a character of API URL.
fromCSV: a logical, defines whether data are returned in .csv format or .json format.
profile: an object of class Auth. Default is myProfile.
...: further arguments and CSV parsing parameters to be passed to read_csv when fromCSV = TRUE.

Value

a dataframe (fromCSV = TRUE) or a list containing a dataframe and its metadata (fromCSV = TRUE).

See also

get_api_response and get_api_graph

Examples

if (FALSE) {
myProfile <- create_profile("", "")

json_url <- "http://httpbin.org/json"
api_data_json <- get_api_data(json_url)
head(api_data_json$slideshow$slides)

csv_url <- "http://httpbin.org/robots.txt"
api_data_csv <- get_api_data(csv_url, fromCSV = TRUE)
head(api_data_csv)
}