DSL

request is DSL for http requests for R, and is inspired by the CLI tool httpie. It’s built on httr. The following were driving principles for this package: The web is increasingly a JSON world, so we assume applications/json by default, but give back other types if not The workflow follows logically, or at least should, from, hey, I got this url, to i need to add some options, to execute request - and functions support piping so that you can execute functions in this order Whenever possible, we transform output to data.frame’s - facilitating downstream manipulation via dplyr, etc. We do GET requests by default. Specify a different type if you don’t want GET. Given GET by default, this client is optimized for consumption of data, rather than creating new things on servers You can use non-standard evaluation to easily pass in query parameters without worrying about &’s, URL escaping, etc. (see api_query()) Same for body params (see api_body()) The following is a brief demo of some of the package functionality: ...