Feature request: Make API key optional

hrecht / censusapi

R package to retrieve U.S. Census data and metadata via API

https://www.hrecht.com/censusapi/

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Feature request: Make API key optional #87

Closed szimmer closed 5 months ago

szimmer commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Census now allows calls without an API key. Allow users to not specify API key at all. Very useful to use package in a GitHub repository with actions and not storing a secret key.

Describe the solution you'd like Allow NULL to be specified for key in the getCensus function.

Describe alternatives you've considered Store secret API keys in a GitHub repo.

Additional context Pull request coming for this.

hrecht commented 8 months ago

Adding this to the queue to explore for the next sprint, likely in January. Thanks for suggesting!

hrecht commented 5 months ago

Closed with https://github.com/hrecht/censusapi/commit/d8254f09a0054b9d5610a6c3d2e15a42eec89fc1