Aron Lindberg aronlindberg
jennybc
/ digest_header_links.R
Created
February 7, 2015 19:50
Digest link header in paginated GitHub API request
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| #' Digest the Link header in a paginated result. | |
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| #' Converts the Link header from a monolithic string to a usable data.frame. | |
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| #' The GitHub API automatically paginates when the number of requested items | |
| #' exceeds the number of items per page. When this occurs, the result returned | |
| #' by the server will include a Link header that provides the URLs for other | |
| #' pages of results, such as the next page and the last page. These assorted | |
| #' URLs are catenated in a single string and this function converts that | |
| #' information into a data.frame that is useful for traversing the pages. |