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Generata Strava API authentication token

Source: R/strava_oauth.R
strava_oauth.Rd

Generate a token for the user and the desired scope. The user is sent to the strava authentication page if he/she hasn't given permission to the app yet, else, is sent to the app webpage.

Usage

strava_oauth(
  app_name,
  app_client_id,
  app_secret,
  app_scope = "public",
  cache = FALSE
)

Arguments

app_name

chr string for name of the app

app_client_id

chr string for ID received when the app was registered

app_secret

chr string for secret received when the app was registered

app_scope

chr string for scope of authentication, Must be "read" , "read_all", "profile:read_all", "profile:write", "activity:read", "activity:read_all" or "activity:write"

cache

logical to cache the token

Value

A Token2.0 object returned by oauth2.0_token to be used with API function calls

Details

The app_name, app_client_id, and app_secret are specific to the user and can be obtained by registering an app on the Strava API authentication page: http://strava.github.io/api/v3/oauth/. This requires a personal Strava account.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
app_name <- 'myappname' # chosen by user
app_client_id  <- 'myid' # an integer, assigned by Strava
app_secret <- 'xxxxxxxx' # an alphanumeric secret, assigned by Strava

# create the authentication token
stoken <- httr::config(
  token = strava_oauth(
    app_name, 
    app_client_id, 
    app_secret, 
    app_scope="activity:read_all"
  )
)

# use authentication token
get_athlete(stoken, id = '2837007')
} # }