Passing api key via the url in R

[Veeresh Thummadi]

Hi 

I am trying to send the api key through the R script. Here is what i wrote. I am getting a connection error. I wrote this script in R. 

library(jsonlite)

data1<- fromJSON("https://api.meetup.com/2/groups?api_token="your_token", flatten = TRUE)

Let  me know how i can pass this api_key in this file?

Thanks

Veeresh

[Chris Lewis]

Hi Verresh,

I don't know R but, as pasted, there are too many quotes. It would be something like:

fromJSON("https://api.meetup.com/2/groups?api_token=your_token", flatten = TRUE)

If that doesn't help perhaps someone familiar with R can step in. Also, sharing your error message could help.

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[Veeresh Thummadi]

I removed the quotes and tried with access_token or api_token and I am getting this error. 

Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : HTTP error 401.

[Doug Tangren]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Veeresh Thummadi <vthu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I removed the quotes and tried with access_token or api_token and I am getting this error. 

Hi Veeresh,

api_token is not a recognized authentication credential parameter name. access_token is if you are using oauth2. This page should help document which parameters are expected to produce sets of oauth credentials http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/auth/

Are you by any chance trying to use an api key from this page https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/key/ to authenticate your request? If so, the expected name of the request parameter is "key". 

You can not substitute an api "key" for an "access_token" value and visa versa. Also, note that access_tokens are subject to expiration and need to be periodically refreshed.

Let me know if that helps.