New version of httr: 0.2
We’re happy to announce a new version of httr, a package designed to make it easy to work with web APIs. Httr is a wrapper around RCurl, and provides:
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functions for the most important http verbs:
GET,HEAD,PATCH,PUT,DELETEandPOST. -
automatic cookie handing across requests, connection sharing, and standard SSL config.
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a request object which captures the body of the request along with request status, cookies, headers, timings and other useful information.
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easy ways to access the response as a raw vector, a character vector, or parsed into an R object (for html, xml, json, png and jpeg).
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wrapper functions for the most common configuration options:
set_cookies,add_headers,authenticate,use_proxy,verbose,timeout. -
support for OAuth 1.0 and 2.0. Use
oauth1.0_tokenandoauth2.0_tokento get user tokens, andsign_oauth1.0andsign_oauth2.0to 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).
Track httr’s development on github, and see what’s new in this version.
