RCurl, basic authentication with API key

Question

I used to use RCurl, to grab the data that needs login. Now I have to grab the data using api key (as well as userid,password) and it needs a basic authentication (Radian6 a

Answer 1

You might find it a little easier to use httr. The code would look something like this:

library(httr)

req <- GET("https://address.com/authenticate", 
  authenticate("user", "pass", type = "basic"),
  add_headers(auth_appkey = api_key))
stop_for_status(req)
content(req)
# Then extract token etc