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Import JSON data from API

As Filip showed in the video, fromJSON() also works if you pass a URL as a character string or the path to a local file that contains JSON data. Let's try this out on the OMDb API, where you can fetch all sorts of movie data.

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Importing Data in R

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Exercise instructions

  • omdb_url represents a URL. Use fromJSON() directly on this URL and store the result in omdb_url.
  • Display the structure of omdb_url.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# jsonlite is preloaded

# Definition of omdb_url
omdb_url <- "http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=72bc447a&i=tt0076759&r=json"

# Import OMDb data: omdb_data


# Print structure of omdb_data
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