Getting data from the web: API access

Overview

  • Identify multiple methods for obtaining data from the internet
  • Define application program interface (API)
  • Explain authentication keys and demonstrate secure methods for storing these keys
  • Demonstrate how to use canned packages in R to access APIs
  • Practice gathering data from Twitter API using the rtweet package in R
  • Identify methods for writing functions to interact with APIs
  • Define JSON data structure and how to convert them to data frames
  • Practice tidying messy JSON data objects using tidyr

Before class

Class materials

Additional resources

What you need to do after class

Benjamin Soltoff
Benjamin Soltoff
Lecturer in Information Science