fetch_args_list: Set custom API request parameters

Description

Used to specify custom options when making API requests, such as to set timeouts or change data formats. These options are used by fetch() when it makes calls to the Epidata API.

Usage

fetch_args_list(
  ...,
  fields = NULL,
  disable_date_parsing = FALSE,
  disable_data_frame_parsing = FALSE,
  return_empty = FALSE,
  timeout_seconds = 15 * 60,
  base_url = NULL,
  dry_run = FALSE,
  debug = FALSE,
  format_type = c("json", "classic", "csv")
)

Value

A fetch_args object containing all the specified options

Arguments

...: not used for values, forces later arguments to bind by name
fields: a list of epidata fields to return, or NULL to return all fields (default). e.g. c("time_value", "value") to return only the time_value and value fields or c("-direction") to return everything except the direction field
disable_date_parsing: disable automatic date parsing
disable_data_frame_parsing: disable automatic conversion to data frame; this is only supported by endpoints that only support the 'classic' format (non-tabular)
return_empty: boolean that allows returning an empty tibble if there is no data
timeout_seconds: the maximum amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a response from the API server
base_url: base URL to use; by default NULL, which means the global base URL "https://api.delphi.cmu.edu/epidata/"
dry_run: if TRUE, skip the call to the API and instead return the epidata_call object (useful for debugging)
debug: if TRUE, return the raw response from the API
format_type: the format to request from the API, one of classic, json, csv; this is only used by fetch_debug, and by default is "json"