HTTP GET with JSON Parsing — http_get_json • istatlab

Fetches a URL through the throttled transport layer and parses the response as JSON. Replaces direct httr::GET + jsonlite::fromJSON calls.

Usage

http_get_json(
  url,
  timeout = 120,
  verbose = TRUE,
  simplifyVector = FALSE,
  flatten = FALSE
)

Arguments

url: Character string with the full URL
timeout: Numeric timeout in seconds
verbose: Logical whether to log status messages
simplifyVector: Logical passed to jsonlite::fromJSON. Default FALSE.
flatten: Logical passed to jsonlite::fromJSON. Default FALSE.

Value

Parsed JSON object (list), or signals an error on failure