Hi to all my r programmers,
I don't know if this is possible but I was trying to use API to connect to a website. There's documentation on the site but the examples are in curl, c#, and php. I'm not sure what steps to do. I assume I can use the "httr" package but I'm not even sure. I was given a token but will use an example in my code.
Documentation:
https://support.bluefolder.com/hc/en-us/sections/200381849-API-2-0
How to Access Any RESTful API Using the R Language:
https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-to-access-any-restful-api-using-r-language/how-to/2017/07/21
Example Code to retrieve list of all customers:
require("httr")
require("jsonlite")
username <- "Example12345"
password <- "X"
r <- GET("https://app.bluefolder.com/api/2.0/customers/list.aspx", authenticate(username, password, type = "basic"))
txt_poke <- content(r, "text", encoding = "ISO-8859-1")
json_poke <- fromJSON(txt_poke, flatten=TRUE)
I don't think I'm even connecting right. I keep getting the message:
<response status="fail">
<error code="error_code">
error_message
</error>
</response>
or
Error: lexical error: invalid char in json text.
<response status='fail'>
(right here) ------^