jimmyday12 / fitzRoy

A set of functions to easily access AFL data
https://jimmyday12.github.io/fitzRoy
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AFLW cookie no longer working #62

Closed jimmyday12 closed 5 years ago

jimmyday12 commented 5 years ago

The function get_aflw_cookie() now returns NULL.

This is passed onto all other AFLW functions and so they are failing.

Digging a bit deeper, it seems either the URL of the API has changed or we've been blocked :(

  response <- httr::POST("http://www.afl.com.au/api/cfs/afl/WMCTok")
  response
#> Response [https://www.afl.com.au/api/cfs/afl/WMCTok]
#>   Date: 2019-03-02 22:13
#>   Status: 403
#>   Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
#>   Size: 220 B
#> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
#> <html><head>
#> <title>403 Forbidden</title>
#> </head><body>
#> <h1>Forbidden</h1>
#> <p>You don't have permission to access /api/cfs/afl/WMCTok
#> on this server.</p>
#> </body></html>

<sup>Created on 2019-03-03 by the [reprex package](https://reprex.tidyverse.org) (v0.2.1)</sup>

I guess either we need to find the new URL (instead of https://www.afl.com.au/api/cfs/afl/WMCTok) or we depreciate the AFLW stuff.

@OscarLane how did you find this originally? Any thoughts?