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Nick DiQuattro
Nick DiQuattro

Reputation: 739

How to authenticate with reddit using RCurl

I've been trying to authenticate with Reddit from R using RCurl based on this example from Reddit's github:

 curl -X POST -d 'grant_type=password&username=reddit_bot&password=snoo' --user   'p-jcoLKBynTLew:gko_LXELoV07ZBNUXrvWZfzE3aI' https://ssl.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token

I've tried to convert it to an RCurl command like so:

postForm("https://ssl.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token?grant_type=password",
     username = "MyUserName",
     password = "MyPassword",
     .opts = list(userpwd = "MyClientid:MySecret")
     )

But I get an error: Error: Unauthorized

I'm not sure what I'm doing really with the conversion of the curl command to Rcurl. Thanks for any help you could provide!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 301

Answers (1)

hadley
hadley

Reputation: 103928

Try this httr code:

library(httr)

POST("https://ssl.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token",
  body = list(
    grant_type = "password",
    username = "MyUserName",
    password = "MyPassword"
  ),
  encode = "form",
  authenticate("p-jcoLKBynTLew", "gko_LXELoV07ZBNUXrvWZfzE3aI")
)

Upvotes: 3

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