Log in EcoTaxa — api_login • ecotaxar

api_login(username, password, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

username	your EcoTaxa username (i.e. email address).
password	your EcoTaxa password, as text.
cache	whether to store the token in a file, determined by `api_token_path()`. This is `TRUE` by default and allows other functions to reuse the token.

Value

The token string, invisibly. It also stores to token string in the file defined by api_token_path() if cache=TRUE (the default).

Examples

# log in and get a token
token <- api_login(username="ecotaxa.api.user@gmail.com", password="test!")
token
#> [1] "eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5OTN9.X_idKw.KpqE5BswtXf6mApEdyYhrgpWYwc"
# check where the token is stored
api_token_path()
#> [1] "/home/jiho/.R/ecotaxar/token"
readLines(api_token_path())
#> [1] "eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5OTN9.X_idKw.KpqE5BswtXf6mApEdyYhrgpWYwc"