auth_from_secret: Use secrets to authorize R package to access endpoints

In jhudsl/leanbuild: Companion Tools for Open-Source Tools for Training Resources (OTTR)

Use secrets to authorize R package to access endpoints

Description

This is a function to authorize ottrpal to access calendly, github or google noninteractively from passing in a keys or tokens.

Usage

auth_from_secret(
  app_name,
  token,
  access_token,
  refresh_token,
  cache = FALSE,
  in_test = FALSE
)

Arguments

app_name	Which app are you trying to authorize? 'google', 'calendly' or 'github'?
token	For calendly or github, pass in the API key or Personal Access Token that you have set up from going to https://github.com/settings/tokens/new or https://calendly.com/integrations/api_webhooks respectively.
access_token	For Google, access token can be obtained from running authorize interactively: token <-authorize(); token$credentials$access_token
refresh_token	For Google, refresh token can be obtained from running authorize interactively: token <-authorize(); token$credentials$refresh_token
cache	Should the credentials be cached? TRUE or FALSE?
in_test	If setting up auth in a test, set to TRUE so that way the authorization doesn't stick

Value

OAuth token saved to the environment so the package access the API data

Examples

## Not run: 

# Example for GitHub
# You go to https://github.com/settings/tokens/new to get a Personal Access Token
auth_from_secret("github", token = "ghp_a_github_pat_here")

# Example for authorizing for Google
token <- authorize("google")
auth_from_secret(
  app_name = "google",
  access_token = token$credentials$access_token,
  refresh_token = token$credentials$refresh_token
)

## End(Not run)

jhudsl/leanbuild documentation built on April 17, 2025, 3:15 p.m.