I would like to use httr
to link up/upload my R image outputs to flickr, but am having difficulty with the initial stages where i need to authenticate myself using OAuth 1.0.
I previously created an app by going to the following link http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/
and then got a secret and key string for that app...
I then used it in the httr
package function to get a token but to no avail. I have been trying to use the provided documentation on this link http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.oauth.html to help out but, I am struggling...
The following is the code I used.
flickr.app <- oauth_app("flickr",key="xxxxxx", secret="xxxxxxxx")
flickr.urls <- oauth_endpoint(request="http://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/request_token",
authorize="http://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize",
access="http://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/access_token")
flickr.token <- oauth1.0_token(flickr.urls,flickr.app)
from which i get the error message
Error: http client error (400)
Not too sure where to go from here...any help would be much appreciated.
N.B. Also I recognise that due to the nature of setting up api links, that there are secrets , api-keys, logins and passwords that need to be kept secret etc, but it does not take long to set up a dummy flickr account from www.flickr.com , to be able to reproduce the problem...in my opinion...perhaps others could try setting one up and letting me know if they got similar issues, and potential methods to work around the situation?