livechatR - LiveChat REST API client for R

The package livechatR provides an interface from R to LiveChat's API endpoints (see https://developers.livechatinc.com/rest-api/).

This package contains functions that curl the most frequently used API endpoints (agents, canned responses ahd chats).

Features

• Authentication by constructing the necessary request URL using the LiveChat's API key and Email.
• Easy parameterization and result parsing for the following API requests:
  • agents/: get the list of agents using livechatGetAgents.
  • canned_responses/: get the list of canned responses using livechatGetCannedResponses.
  • goals/: get the list of goals using livechatGetGoals.
  • greetings/: get the list of greetings using livechatGetGreetings.
  • chats/: get the list of chat sessions, raw chat text and events using livechatGetChats.

Installation

require(devtools)
devtools::install_github("lawwu/livechatR")
require(livechatR)

Dependencies

The package depends on

• dplyr
• purrr
• jsonlite
• data.table
• magrittr

Examples

Set-up connection using LiveChat credentials in R

In order to use the various methods of this package, we need to save the account data of your LiveChat email and API key into a named object using livechatCreateAccount. The next examples all make use of this account object. You can find the API Key and token here.

## Fill in here the API token, key and secret as found on
## https://my.livechatinc.com/agents/api-key
> account = livechatCreateAccount(email ="email_here",
                                  api_key = "api_key_here")

List Agents

> livechatGetAgents(account)
...

List Canned Responses

> livechatGetCannedResponses(account, group = 0)

List Chat Sessions and Chats

> livechat_data <- livechatGetChats(account, date_from = "2016-02-23")