httr
is organised around the five most common http
verbs: GET
, PATCH
,
POST
, HEAD
,
PUT
, and DELETE
.response
object
which provides easy access to status code, cookies,
headers, timings, and other useful info. The content of
the request is available as a raw vector
(content
), character vector
(text_content
), or parsed into an R object
(parsed_content
), currently for html, xml,
json, png and jpeg). Requests can be modified by various config options like
set_cookies
, add_headers
,
authenticate
, use_proxy
,
verbose
, and timeout
httr supports OAuth 1.0 and 2.0. Use
oauth1.0_token
and
oauth2.0_token
get user tokens, and
sign_oauth1.0
and
sign_oauth2.0
to sign requests. The demos
directory has six demos of using OAuth: three for 1.0
(linkedin,twitter and vimeo) and three for 2.0 (facebook,
github, google).