R: Speed up API calls

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I am writing code to collect data from the Steam API (documentation: http://ift.tt/1nlgDl9).

Particularly, I use the fromJSON() function from the jsonlite package in [R].

However, I have the feeling that the code is slow, and that the bottleneck is the actual calling of the API. I am currently able to do around 7.500-10.000 calls an hour, resulting in around 2-3 calls per second. This feels slow. Is it possible to speed this up, and if so, how?

Two things I found already is that it may be necessary to close the connection after opening it (cf. http://ift.tt/1PcHM9Q). Also, the API allows json (what I use now) but also XML and CSV outputs, maybe it is better to use one of the latter two? Any other possible solutions?

asked 35 secs ago

Jim Raynor
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R: Speed up API calls