https://github.com/ajmcoqui/webAPIsR

Example scripts for "Using web APIs in R" presentation, rstudio::conf 2017
https://github.com/ajmcoqui/webAPIsR

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Example scripts for "Using web APIs in R" presentation, rstudio::conf 2017

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ajmcoqui/webAPIsR
• Owner: ajmcoqui
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-01-12T18:27:03.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-07-12T01:09:25.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-28T08:34:35.118Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: HTML
• Size: 1.04 MB
• Stars: 27
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# webAPIsR

These are example scripts for my "Using web APIs in R" presentation from rstudio::conf 2017.

## Presentation

#### WebAPIsInR_Expanded.Rmd

Slides from my rstudio::conf presentation.

## Scripts

#### omdb.R

Get data from http://www.omdbapi.com/, an open-source movie database.  Explore the GET response; parse it with jsonlite or xml2, depending on the response format.

#### swapi.R

Get data from https://swapi.co/, an open-source Star Wars database.  Explore the GET response, parse with jsonlite, create a function to parse automatically, write a loop to process a paged response.

#### twitter.R

Get data from https://api.twitter.com using httr's convenience functions for OAuth 1.0 authentication.

#### github.R

Get data from https://api.github.com using httr's convenience functions for OAuth 2.0 authentication.

## More resources

#### On APIs and HTTP: 

https://zapier.com/learn/apis/chapter-1-introduction-to-apis/

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/webprogramming/HTTP_Basics.html

#### On the packages:

`help(package=httr)`

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/vignettes/quickstart.html

http://github.com/hadley/httr/tree/master/demo

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jsonlite/vignettes/json-apis.html

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/vignettes/api-packages.html