https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/api/ Recent content in Api on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/02/trapinch/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/02/trapinch/ tl;dr I’ve used the {httr2} R package to create {trapinch}, a package that wraps PokéAPI for fetching Pokémon data. Update I had found a couple of older, non-{httr2} PokéAPI wrappers for R (see footnotes), but had somehow missed one that already uses {httr2}: see Ash Baldry’s {pokeapi} package, which he wrote months ago! {httr} me baby one more time The {httr2} package lets you talk to the internet. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ tl;dr I made @londonmapbot: a simple Twitter bot that uses the R package {rtweet}, GitHub Actions and the Mapbox API. Find the source on Github. London from (socially-distant) space I’ve wanted to make a Twitter bot for a while, but it seemed like Hard Work. Spoiler: it’s not. So, I’ve made @londonmapbot: a completely unsophisticated proof-of-concept Twitter bot. What does it do? It posts a satellite image from random coordinates in Greater London (well, from a bounding box roughly within the M25 motorway) on schedule.