Suggestions on how to access google webmaster tools' api through R?

I wish to access my Google Webmaster's tools' API via R.

I see from here:

http://code.google.com/apis/w开发者_Python百科ebmastertools/docs/2.0/reference.html

That it requires fetching a feed behind https and parsing it.

Any suggestions on how to do it?

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Based on some Googling, I'd say the RCurl library is your best bet for the HTTP stuff. They have a good example on how to do some basic operations and work with an XML payload: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/xmlParse.html

Like other GData services, the webmaster tools api is AtomPub-based XML. It should be fairly easy to parse using the XML library, but you'll need to code that yourself.

Googleanalytics4r mentioned by Brandon takes this same approach. See: https://github.com/sorenmacbeth/googleanalytics4r/blob/master/R/googleanalytics4r.R

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I guess you could use the Java client with rJava.

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Its a bit hacky, but I access GWT data from R through the python tool here (http://code.google.com/p/webmaster-tools-downloads/source/browse/downloader.py), by issuing system() commands e.g.

feedback <- system("python ./gwt-tool/googlewebmastertool_download_gmt.py")

Where "feedback" will be the message's generated from the script, and the files appear in the working directory of the system call.

A better solution would be to use httr package to make the requests (which is a wrapper for RCurl suggested above) - I've found that httr smooths out some of the problems of configuration that RCurl can present.