madhttr

Tidy Helper Methods for Many Types of Unkempt Internet Metadata and Content

Description

The ‘httr’, ‘openssl’, and ‘HARtools’ packages provide methods to retrieve rich metadata and content from internet hosts but their return objects are quite unkempt. Methods are provided to turn these objects into tidy data frames along with other useful helper methods which augment functionality in these packages.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

download_file: Download file from the Internet (cache-aware)
download_ssl_cert: Doewnload X.509 certificates
GET: GET a URL
nslookup: Lookup a hostname
POST: POST file to a server
read_har: Read HAR objects
tidy_cert: Turn an openssl downloaded SSL certificate into a tidy data frame
tidy_har: Tidy HAR entries
tidy_response: Turn an httr response object into a tidy data frame
write_har: Write HAR objects

Installation

install.packages("madhttr", repos = "https://cinc.rud.is")
# or
devtools::install_git("https://git.rud.is/hrbrmstr/madhttr.git")
# or
devtools::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/madhttr")
# or
devtools::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/madhttr")
# or
devtools::install_bitbucket("hrbrmstr/madhttr")
# or
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/madhttr")

Usage

library(madhttr)
library(tibble) # for printing

# current version
packageVersion("madhttr")
## [1] '0.1.0'

Certifiable

tidy_cert(download_ssl_cert("r-project.org"))
## # A tibble: 4 x 9
##   subject               issuer               algorithm   signature valid_start  valid_end  self_signed alt_names pub_key
##   <chr>                 <chr>                <chr>       <I<list>> <chr>        <chr>      <lgl>       <I<list>> <I<lis>
## 1 CN=*.r-project.org,O… CN=COMODO RSA Domai… sha256With… < [256]>  Aug 16 00:0… Aug 15 23… FALSE       <chr [2]> <pubke…
## 2 CN=COMODO RSA Domain… CN=COMODO RSA Certi… sha384With… < [512]>  Feb 12 00:0… Feb 11 23… FALSE       <NULL>    <pubke…
## 3 CN=COMODO RSA Certif… CN=AddTrust Externa… sha384With… < [256]>  May 30 10:4… May 30 10… FALSE       <NULL>    <pubke…
## 4 CN=AddTrust External… CN=AddTrust Externa… sha1WithRS… < [256]>  May 30 10:4… May 30 10… TRUE        <NULL>    <pubke…

Responsive

tidy_response(GET("https://rud.is/b"))
## # A tibble: 1 x 7
##   url               status_code date                headers    cookies          content     times           
##   <chr>                   <int> <dttm>              <I<list>>  <I<list>>        <I<list>>   <I<list>>       
## 1 https://rud.is/b/         200 2019-07-08 20:15:36 <list [2]> <tibble [1 × 7]> < [60,585]> <tibble [6 × 2]>

HARdy

tidy_har(readRDS(system.file("extdat", "example-har.rds", package = "madhttr")))
## # A tibble: 88 x 11
##    started   total_time page_ref timings  req_url        resp_url        resp_rdrurl resp_type  resp_size status headers
##    <chr>          <int> <chr>    <I<list> <chr>          <chr>           <chr>       <chr>          <int>  <int> <I<lis>
##  1 2019-07-…        352 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/html…        NA    200 <tibbl…
##  2 2019-07-…         35 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          applicati…        NA    200 <tibbl…
##  3 2019-07-…         41 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
##  4 2019-07-…         62 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
##  5 2019-07-…         82 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
##  6 2019-07-…         91 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
##  7 2019-07-…         86 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
##  8 2019-07-…         93 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
##  9 2019-07-…        109 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
## 10 2019-07-…        112 1        <tibble… https://rud.i… https://rud.is… ""          text/css          NA    200 <tibbl…
## # … with 78 more rows

madhttr Metrics

Lang	# Files	(%)	LoC	(%)	Blank lines	(%)	# Lines	(%)
R	8	0.89	204	0.94	55	0.7	128	0.75
Rmd	1	0.11	13	0.06	24	0.3	43	0.25

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.