Retrieving information about pins

[csgillespie]

I'm trying to retrieve information about pins. I'm using the following commands:

p = pins::pin_find(board = "rsconnect")
pins::pin_info(p$name[1])
pins::pin_info(p$name[2])

So retrieving information about pin 1 works, but pin 2 doesn't. The simple reason is I don't have access to pin 2.

Questions

1. It seems odd security wise that I can view the pin names of pins I can't access.
2. How can I view the information of the pins, i.e. is there some sort of pin super user.

[woodward]

Can't resist sharing this unhelpful information:

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[emcrisan]

Currently pin_info() retrieves metadata stored inside the pin's contents and therefore, requires access to the pin.

There is a newly opened feature request in the pins package to allow admins to use pin_info() even when access to the pin's contents is not available. You can find it at https://github.com/rstudio/pins/issues/160, and follow progress on that GitHub issue.