httr (version 0.6.0)

write_stream: Process output in a streaming manner.

Description

This is the most general way of processing the response from the server - you receive the raw bytes as they come in, and you can do whatever you want with them.

Usage

write_stream(f)

Arguments

f
Callback function. It should have a single argument, a raw vector containing the bytes recieved from the server. This will usually be 16k or less

Examples

Run this code
GET("https://jeroenooms.github.io/data/diamonds.json",
  write_stream(function(x) print(length(x)))
)

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