HTTP tools

A simple HTTP client, with tools for making HTTP requests, and mocking HTTP requests. The package is built on R6, and takes inspiration from Rubys faraday gem (https://rubygems.org/gems/faraday). The package name is a play on curl, the widely used command line tool for HTTP, and this package is built on top of the R package curl, an interface to libcurl’ (https://curl.se/libcurl/).

Record test suite HTTP requests and replays them during future runs. A port of the Ruby gem of the same name (https://github.com/vcr/vcr/). Works by hooking into the webmockr R package for matching HTTP requests by various rules (HTTP method, URL, query parameters, headers, body, etc.), and then caching real HTTP responses on disk in cassettes. Subsequent HTTP requests matching any previous requests in the same cassette use a cached HTTP response.

There are a number of binary files associated with the Webdriver/Selenium project. This package provides functions to download these binaries and to manage processes involving them.

Tools and functions for managing the download of binary files. Binary repositories are defined in YAML format. Defining new pre-download, download and post-download templates allow additional repositories to be added.

Provides a set of R bindings for the Selenium 2.0 WebDriver (see https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/ for more information) using the JsonWireProtocol (see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol for more information). Selenium 2.0 WebDriver allows driving a web browser natively as a user would either locally or on a remote machine using the Selenium server it marks a leap forward in terms of web browser automation. Selenium automates web browsers (commonly referred to as browsers). Using RSelenium you can automate browsers locally or remotely.

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Stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests. Includes tools for stubbing HTTP requests, including expected request conditions and response conditions. Match on HTTP method, query parameters, request body, headers and more. Can be used for unit tests or outside of a testing context.

A GraphQL client, with an R6 interface for initializing a connection to a GraphQL instance, and methods for constructing queries, including fragments and parameterized queries. Queries are checked with the libgraphqlparser C++ parser via the graphql package.

Provides functions to download and parse robots.txt files. Ultimately the package makes it easy to check if bots (spiders, crawler, scrapers, …) are allowed to access specific resources on a domain.

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Bindings to the libgraphqlparser C++ library. Parses GraphQL syntax and exports the AST in JSON format.