R Observatory: Metrics for apifetch version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

apifetch

0.2.0Package record

Token-Authenticated REST API Retrieval Toolkit

1packages depend

1.4Kdownloads / year

88.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by André LeiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A small, dependency-light toolkit for talking to token-authenticated REST APIs. It manages authentication tokens in process environment variables (never written to disk), builds requests with configurable authentication and pagination strategies, and retrieves paginated data either one page at a time or in chunks combined into a single tibble. The design is API-agnostic: a single 'apifetch_api' profile describes an endpoint together with how it authenticates and paginates, so the same verbs work across different services.

Changes in 0.2.0

Bug fixes

af_fetch_all() no longer loops forever with af_paginate_none(): an API that cannot be paged is now fetched with a single request.
af_fetch_all() now accepts chunk_size = Inf (previously failed with a "missing value" error), and truncates to total_limit when an API returns more rows than requested.
parse_queries() (and therefore the query argument of af_fetch()) appends to an endpoint that already has a query string instead of producing a second ?; drops NULL and NA values instead of sending a= or a=NA; repeats a key for multi-valued parameters; and errors clearly on an unnamed list.
Integer-like arguments (limit, offset, chunk_size, ...) now reject vectors, NULL, NA, -Inf and values beyond the integer range with a clear message, instead of silently becoming NA or failing cryptically.

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Token names with accents are sanitized to plain ASCII on every platform (macOS previously produced names such as Sa'ude).
af_list_tokens() matches the service prefix literally rather than as a regular expression, and skips empty variables.

Improvements

af_store_token() gains overwrite = FALSE, to rotate an expired token.
af_fetch() returns an empty tibble for responses without a body (e.g. HTTP 204), gives a token-specific hint on HTTP 401/403, and a clear error when the response is not JSON (e.g. an HTML login or captive-portal page).
Added mocked-HTTP tests for af_fetch() and af_fetch_all().
Requires 'httr2' >= 1.0.0.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("apifetch", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("StrategicProjects/apifetch")

Development version from StrategicProjects/apifetch. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-apifetch

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-apifetch

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-apifetch

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK6 OK2026-07-03

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 156 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%8 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Use case: the Big Data PE API HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,316 · ~4/day · ~116/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38930 days

1.1K90 days

1.4K1 year

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Also on42 r2u27 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

strategicprojects/apifetch ↗Organization: StrategicProjects

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

22Commits

2Commit identities

22 commits · Last activity 2026-09-28

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-07-02 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/strategicprojects/apifetch on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-26
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 22 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.814 commits · Jun to Jul 2026
Claude Opus 5.55 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Fable 53 commits · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing apifetch adds 20 packages (13 with compiled code, 7.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

cli dplyr httr2statstibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

BigDataPE

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

André Leite

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Carlos Amorim

Author · added in 0.2.0

Diogo Bezerra

Author

Júlia Nascimento Barreto

Author · added in 0.2.0

Hugo Vasconcelos

Author

Marcos Wasiliew

Author · added in 0.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Carlos Amorin

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Marcos Wasilew

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (2)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-09-28 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2026-07-02
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-02
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 48 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("apifetch")

Format

Leite, A., Amorim, C., Bezerra, D., Nascimento Barreto, J., Vasconcelos, H., & Wasiliew, M. (2026). apifetch: Token-Authenticated REST API Retrieval Toolkit (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.apifetch

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for apifetch version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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