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R: Follow a blog.

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Follow a blog.

Description

This function allows to follow a blog of other Tumblr users.

Usage

follow(url = NA, token = NA, consumer_key = NA, consumer_secret = NA)

Arguments

`url`	The URL of the blog to follow.
`token`	Represents the complete set of data needed for OAuth access: an app, an endpoint, cached credentials and parameters. See Details.
`consumer_key`	The consumer key provided by your application.
`consumer_secret`	The consumer secret provided by your application.

Details

The API supports the OAuth 1.0a Protocol, accepting parameters via the Authorization header, with the HMAC-SHA1 signature method only.

Value

Returns 200: OK (blog successfully followed) or a 404 (blog was not found).

Author(s)

Andrea Capozio

References

https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2

Examples

## Not run: 	
## An example of an authenticated request using the httr package,
## where consumer_key, consumer_secret, appname are fictitious.
## You can obtain your own at https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps

consumer_key <-'key'
consumer_secret <- 'secret'
appname <- Tumblr_App
tokenURL <- 'http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/request_token'
accessTokenURL <- 'http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/access_token'
authorizeURL <- 'http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/authorize'

app <- oauth_app(appname, consumer_key, consumer_secret)	
endpoint <- oauth_endpoint(tokenURL, authorizeURL, accessTokenURL)
token <- oauth1.0_token(endpoint, app)
sig <- sign_oauth1.0(app, 
					token = token$credentials$oauth_token, 
					token_secret = token$credentials$oauth_token_secret)

## you must specify a real blog for url

url <- "blogname.tumblr.com"

follow(url = url, token = token,
consumer_key = consumer_key, consumer_secret = consumer_secret)

## End(Not run)