Package DatastreamDSWS2R error requesting acces Token
Hello,
I am trying to download data from Datastream directly in R using
require(devtools)
install_github("CharlesCara/DatastreamDSWS2R")
This works so far.
next I saved my username and password (those credential I use for Refinitive) and entered
mydsws <- dsws$new(username=DatastreamUsername,password=DatastreamPassword)
This throws the following error
> mydsws <- dsws$new(username=DatastreamUsername,password=DatastreamPassword) ...retrying ...retrying ...retrying ...retrying Error in .self$.loadToken() : Error requesting access Token. Error message was: Timeout was reached: [product.datastream.com] Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds
Do you know why or do you have a solution for me?
Hi,
Based on all given error messages, it seems to me that your machine cannot connect to DataStream server. I suggest you contact your network or IT team to verify a connection problem on your side.
From the error, the request was timed out. You can try the following code to directly send a request to the server.
library(httr)
token_url <- paste("http://product.datastream.com/DSWSClient/V1/DSService.svc/rest/Token?username=",
DatastreamUsername,
"&password=",
DatastreamPassword,
sep="")
test <- httr::GET(token_url, httr::timeout(300))
test
Thank you very much for your answer. However this seems not to fix the problem as it still throws an timeout error.
It could be a network issue. You need to contact your network team to verify the problem. If you need to connect through a proxy, you can use the following command to set the http_proxy.
Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8080") DatastreamUsername <- "username" DatastreamPassword <- "password" mydsws <- dsws$new(username=DatastreamUsername, password=DatastreamPassword)
I tried it and this produced a new error:
Error in .self$.loadToken() : Error requesting access Token. Error message was: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8080: Connection refused
127.0.0.1:8080 is my test proxy. You should contact the network or IT team to verify the problem.
Hello @zoya.farberov, I tried using my local proxy but now I am encountering a new error which is:
Client error: (403) Forbidden
Since I am not an IT specialist, I am kind of stuck at this point. Do you know a solution for that? Best regards Michael