REST API with R

[Hellfire]

Hello,
I am very new to RStudio and was wondering how someone would connect to a REST API that needs "x-apikey: accesskey=1234;secretkey=1234"? I have found other documentation but nothing has seemed to worked. Any guidance would be greatly appreciately.

[infominer]

you need to use Oauth and use the httr package.
This guide might help https://googledrive.tidyverse.org/articles/articles/bring-your-own-app.html#get-an-oauth-app-and-tell-googledrive-about-it

[Hellfire]

It looks like that is specific to google apps only? I'm trying to connect Tenable.sc

[Hellfire]

So, I was able to reach the API in curl using:

curl -X GET -k --header "x-apikey: accesskey=XXXXX; secretkey=XXXXX" https://scnessus.redacted.org/rest/currentUser

But the translation to R just gives me a "Resource is not supported." error message. I don't understand why it would work through command line but not through RStudio?

> require(httr)
> headers = c('x-apikey' = 'accesskey=XXXXXXX; secretkey=XXXXXX')
> tenable <- httr::POST(url='https://scnessus.redacted.org/rest/currentUser',
+ httr::add_headers(.headers=headers), config = httr::config(ssl_verifypeer = FALSE))

[nirgrahamuk]

Maybe with curl you are GETting but with httr you are POSTing?

[Hellfire]

Haha, newbie mistake. Glad it was easy and right in front of my face. Appreciate the help!