Home/ Questions/Q 9216467
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-18T02:25:25+00:00

This question is related to the my previous question reading raw data in R

  • 0

This question is related to the my previous question reading raw data in R to be saved as .RData file using the dropbox api

I am running into problems when my path includes non-url standard characters

the db.file.name in the previous question is just the path to the relevant file in dropbox.

however the path has a space in it along with exclamation marks. I have a feeling that these need to be converted to a relevant format so that the GET request can work…but not too sure what the conversion is….

so using and continuing from my previous example…

require(httr)
require(RCurl)
db.file.name <- "!! TEST FOLDER/test.RData"
db.app <- oauth_app("db",key="xxxxx", secret="xxxxxxx")
db.sig <- sign_oauth1.0(db.app, token="xxxxxxx", token_secret="xxxxxx")

response <- GET(url=paste0("https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/dropbox/",curlEscape(db.file.name)),config=c(db.sig,add_headers(Accept="x-dropbox-metadata")))

The response is an error, and no file is downloaded…using the documentation page https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api it suggests putting the URL into a UTF-8 encoding…which I’m not sure how to do/not sure it works.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I was close before…I just needed to re-insert the slashes using gsub in order for the GET request to work… so the result was

    response <- GET(url=paste0("https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/dropbox/",gsub("%2F","/",curlEscape(db.file.name))),config=c(db.sig,add_headers(Accept="x-dropbox-metadata")))
    • 0