Authentication error

[okassi]

According to the readme:,

The first time you use an rfigshare function, it will ask you to authenticate online. Just log in and click okay to authenticate rfigshare. R will allow you to cache your login credentials so that you won't be asked to authenticate again (even between R sessions), as long as you are using the same working directory in future.

After installing rfigshare on a fresh machine (without an existing .httr-oauth)

library(devtools) 
install_github('ropensci/rfigshare')
library(rfigshare)

id = 3761562
fs_browse(id)

Error in value[[3L]](cond) : Requires authentication.
       Are your credentials stored in options?
       See fs_auth function for details.

Thus, I am not asked to authenticate.

My sessionInfo is as follows:

sessionInfo()

R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 10.16

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] rfigshare_0.3.7.100

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.6       magrittr_2.0.1   tidyselect_1.1.0 munsell_0.5.0
 [5] colorspace_2.0-1 R6_2.5.0         rlang_0.4.11     fansi_0.5.0
 [9] httr_1.4.2       dplyr_1.0.5      grid_4.0.5       gtable_0.3.0
[13] utf8_1.2.1       DBI_1.1.1        ellipsis_0.3.2   assertthat_0.2.1
[17] yaml_2.2.1       tibble_3.1.2     lifecycle_1.0.0  crayon_1.4.1
[21] RJSONIO_1.3-1.4  purrr_0.3.4      ggplot2_3.3.3    later_1.2.0
[25] vctrs_0.3.8      promises_1.2.0.1 glue_1.4.2       compiler_4.0.5
[29] pillar_1.6.1     generics_0.1.0   scales_1.1.1     XML_3.99-0.6
[33] httpuv_1.6.1     pkgconfig_2.0.3

[jcolomb]

try to authenticate first with fs_auth () and try again.
it might be that browsing was not needing authentification is a former version of the API and now does (??).

[okassi]

Unfortunately that does not work either.

> fs_auth()
Error in init_oauth1.0(self$endpoint, self$app, permission = self$params$permission,  :
  Bad Request (HTTP 400).

Could this be a Figshare API issue?

[muschellij2]

You can run this if you don't want to auth and the article is public (cross post from SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67926877/2549133):

fs_details(article_id = 3761562, mine = FALSE, session = NULL)

[okassi]

@muschellij2 -- thanks! Indeed, things that do not require authentication work fine. Alas, the authentication issue remains.

[okassi]

Seems that Figshare has blocked all requests that use http://. Moving to https:// seems to resolve quite a few issues.

[rgaiacs]

Any update on this?

[cboettig]

This package has been deprecated in favor of https://github.com/ropenscilabs/deposits, which should do what you need!