Hi, Can anyone manage to login to a google account via RCurl? All info on the web appears to be out of date. (1) both RGoogleDocs and RGoogleTrends on omegahat appears to be withdrawn: http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/ http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleTrends/ Does anyone know why? (2) The closest I can get is based on code from http://www.stanford.edu/~knoepfle/cgi-bin/flatpress/?x=entry:entry101220-023915 When I try this, I get back a page saying `Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on' (both on windoze and linux). I find that the cookie file specified in curlSetOpt(cookiefile=) does not always get created but curlSetOpt(verbose=TRUE) shows lines such as * Added cookie GAPS=xxx for domain www.google.com, path /accounts, expire 1391784478 < Set-Cookie: GAPS=xxx;Path=/accounts;Expires=Fri, 07-Feb-2014 14:47:58 GMT;Secure;HttpOnly I am behind a firewall but the verbose trace seems to indicate that curl is going through the proxy properly. (3) A similar problem is asked and solved in php code at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8991873/login-to-google-with-php-and-curl-cookie-turned-off As far as I (with no experience in php) can tell, the R code in (2) does the same as the `answer' code in (3). Can anyone see the difference? One difference is that (2) only grabs the input field GALX but (3) seems to grab and post all fields. Even when I grep and post all input fields, the result is the same no-cookie-functionality-page. (4) My objective is to scrape the search index data as .csv file from http://www.google.com/insights/search/ as in (2). (I can manually download the data in a web browser.) If there are other commandline tools (than RCurl) that can fake a browser to download these data, I would like to know. Thanks for any help/hints, h. -- +--- | Hiroyuki Kawakatsu | Business School, Dublin City University | Dublin 9, Ireland. Tel +353 (0)1 700 7496