Python vs R USGS access to API

I know this may not be the right place for this, but are there restrictions to the programing language used to interact with the API?

For example in R, this could be the same as

psw ="usgs-pass.json" # provide path to the file with password and username
library(jsonlite)
library(httr)

api <- list(
  'apiURL' = paste0('https://m2m.cr.usgs.gov/api/api/json/stable/'), 
  'apiKey' = NULL,
  'loud_mode' = FALSE
)

jsonData = fromJSON(psw) 
password <- as.matrix(jsonData$password)
username <- as.matrix(jsonData$username)
urln = paste0(api$apiURL, "login")
userContext= NULL

params <- list('username' = username,
               'password' = password,
               'userContext' = userContext)

# res <- POST(urln, authenticate(username, password))
res <- POST(urln, body = params, encode = "json", user_agent("httr"))
# res <- POST(urln, body = params)
v <- content(res)$data

We are trying to revive usgs_login https://github.com/16EAGLE/getSpatialData, any help is much appreciated.

MrChebur / usgs-machine-to-machine-API

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