get_content: Get content from the API

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Get content from the API

Description

This function retrieves the content from the API and saves it to a file if 'save_to_file' is TRUE.

Usage

get_content(
  api,
  end_point,
  save_to_file = FALSE,
  dest = if (save_to_file) fs::path_file(end_point) else NULL
)

Arguments

api	An endpoint to the dataset.
end_point	A character vector of the endpoint to retrieve content from.
save_to_file	A logical value indicating whether to save the content to a file
dest	A character vector specifying the destination file path. If 'save_to_file' is TRUE, this should be a valid file path.

Value

A 'httr2' response object. The content retrieved from the API is either the 'body' of response or the path to the file when 'save_to_file' is TRUE.

Examples

api <- get_topic("Postal")
files <- get_latest_files(api)$csv
file_to_download <- grep("_4326", files, value=TRUE)
response <- get_content(
  api,
  file_to_download,
  save_to_file = TRUE,
  dest = fs::file_temp(ext = "csv")
)
response$body

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