httr (version 1.4.1)

oauth_app: Create an OAuth application.

Description

See the demos for instructions on how to create an OAuth app for linkedin, twitter, vimeo, facebook, github and google. When wrapping an API from a package, the author may want to include a default app to facilitate early and casual use and then provide a method for heavy or advanced users to supply their own app or key and secret.

Usage

oauth_app(appname, key, secret = NULL, redirect_uri = oauth_callback())

Arguments

appname

name of the application. This is not used for OAuth, but is used to make it easier to identify different applications.

key

consumer key, also sometimes called the client ID

secret

consumer secret, also sometimes called the client secret. Despite its name, this does not necessarily need to be protected like a password, i.e. the user still has to authenticate themselves and grant the app permission to access resources on their behalf. For example, see Google's docs for OAuth2 for installed applications.

redirect_uri

The URL that user will be redirected to after authorisation is complete. You should generally leave this as the default unless you're using a non-standard auth flow (like with shiny).

See Also

Other OAuth: oauth1.0_token, oauth2.0_token, oauth_endpoint, oauth_service_token

Examples

# NOT RUN {
google_app <- oauth_app(
  "google",
  key = "123456789.apps.googleusercontent.com",
  secret = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
)
# }