How to make a POST request with header and data options in R using httr::POST?

Question

I am trying make a POST request with data and header information using httr::POST. I can see how to make a POST request, but I am unable to get it to work with

Answer 1

You could try this; with content type and headers added:

link <- "http://www.my-api.com"
df <- list(name="Fred", age="5")

httr::POST(url = link,
           body =  jsonlite::toJSON(df, pretty = T, auto_unbox = T),
           httr::add_headers(`accept` = 'application/json'), 
           httr::content_type('application/json'))