What's the equivalent of httr::content(api_response, type="text/csv") in the new R package httr2?

Question

I'm trying to update my code to pull data from an API. I'm using currently the httr package, but it has been deprecated, so I want to replace my code using the httr2 package. I'm trying to download data in a data frame format. The code using httr is:

api_response <- httr::GET(url, httr::authenticate(user_name, password))
data <- httr::content(api_response, type="text/csv")

data is a data frame. How do I get the same result using httr2?

I've tried:

api_response <- request(url) %>% 
    req_auth_basic(user_name,
                   password) %>%
    req_perform()

and I get a httr2_response object and no errors. I don't know how to perform the next step of downloading the data in a data frame format.

Answer 1

As already stated in an httr2 github issue, you want to extract the contents as a string and parse it yourself explicitly with readr::read_csv

api_response <- request(url) |>
    req_auth_basic(user_name, password) |>
    req_perform() |>
    resp_body_string() |>
    readr::read_csv()

This was basically what httr was doing under the hood