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[Peppi]

• Application type: ProTrackR
• Platform(s): R (available on multiple platforms)
• Predicted demand, an estimation of how many requests a month you will make: Hard to tell, best guess is about 200 per month
• Commercial interest, is this a for-sale app?: No, it is available for free under a GPL-3 license

A level 3 Key would suffice. A note: it's probably hard to keep the Key secret for this package, as it is published as open source. The package is currently scraping information from html. I think it's preferable for all parties to use an API Key. Is it possible for key owners to keep track of the traffic?

Hope to hear from you...

Cheers,

Pepijn

[Saga Musix]

There are several other open-source projects using an API key, and it's pretty simple to keep it secret: Don't commit it together with the rest of the files. Every user must get their own key. For a pre-compiled binaries (if that is possible), you may include your own key of course.

[Peppi]

Thank you for the quick reply!

Unfortunately, I can only provide the CRAN repository with source files. Binary files are created on their server. So the best way forward is to keep my key (that is if I get one) out of the source code and ask users to request their own key here. I really have no clue on how many people actually use the package and how many will request a key. Can you live with that?

Cheers...

[Saga Musix]

As far as I understand the thing you write is a library. Maybe it would be an option to add a "register" method to your source package so that people call this function with their own key whenever they want to make use of this functionality?
Anyway, I'm going to send you a key in a private message, but as said, this is not meant to be spread.

[Peppi]

Thank you! You are correct that it is some form of library. I will keep this key to myself and will provide users with instructions to get their own key in the manual. I can change the functions such that they need to be called with the provided key.