njcorona
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3 years ago Hi @omarbenites,
The mercadolibreR package is currently a work in progress, so it is not available as a package in R and I haven't written any documentation on how to use it.
If you would like to use it now, I would recommend forking this repository and running utils.R, users.R, test_users.R, locations_and_currencies.R, items_and_search.R, and categories_and_publications.R. This will initialize all of the relevant functions, which you could then call with the appropriate arguments. Each function's header explains the arguments it takes in and the output it produces.
Some of the functions that make API calls might require an authorization code or access token. authenticate.R is incomplete, so you cannot use it to get API credentials. You should instead follow Mercado Libre's instructions for getting authenticated here.
I started creating the package as a follow-up to some earlier work I did as a research assistant, wherein I wrote a webscraper to capture data on certain product listings on the MercadoLibre websites for various countries. If that might be helpful for you, you can explore that code and data here.
I hope this helps! Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
Best, Nicolas
Hi @njcorona, I wonder if you have any tutorial or manual about the merdolibreR package. I would like to use it but the lack of information is a limitation.
Best and keep up the good work, OBA