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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.

Cet exercice fait partie du cours

<cours>Intermediate Importing Data in R</cours>
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Instructions de l’exercice

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

Exercice interactif pratique

Essayez cet exercice en complétant ce code d’exemple.

# 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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