getData: getData

Description Usage Arguments See Also Examples

Description

retrieves data from webpage and use caching mechanism to retrieve data from cache if run more than once

Usage

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getData(url, ..., headers = NULL, cached = TRUE)

Arguments

url

url of webpage to retrieve

...

check GET

headers

list/json format input for custom headers

cached

returns a updated result if cached = FALSE

See Also

GET

Examples

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getData("www.cnn.com")
getData("http://echo.jsontest.com/fieldkey/fieldvalue/purpose/test",headers='{"Customheader":"CS"}')
getData("http://echo.jsontest.com/fieldkey/fieldvalue/purpose/test",headers=list(Customheader="CS"))
getData("www.cnn.com",cached=FALSE)

sunnyrathee1/url.Fetcher documentation built on May 9, 2019, 12:50 p.m.