I try to connect from a Proxy-server and I could access gtrends data until mid last week in this way. Now I can still sign up through Internet Explorer, but not through gconnect. Google does not ask for any additional verification when connecting through Internet Explorer. I have tried this with 3 different accounts and it is always the same:
gconnect(username, password)
Google login failed! Check your login information.
However when I run gconnect line by line I receive a valid "200" response code for:
authenticatePage <- postForm(authenticateURL, .params = formparams, curl = ch)
However, the following returns a 400 Response code:
authenticatePage2 <- getURL("https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckCookie?chtml=LoginDoneHtml", curl = ch)
Why does it authenticate twice in the first place? Isnt it sufficient if the first one works? It seems to me that I have a valid curlHandle, that just does not get passed after authenticatePage2 Fails. Correct?
sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages: [1] dplyr_0.4.3 RCurl_1.95-4.7 bitops_1.0-6 gtrendsR_1.3.3
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] Rcpp_0.12.1 lattice_0.20-33 zoo_1.7-12 assertthat_0.1 >R6_2.1.1 grid_3.2.3 plyr_1.8.3 jsonlite_0.9.19 [9] gtable_0.1.2 DBI_0.3.1 magrittr_1.5 scales_0.3.0 >ggplot2_2.0.0 googleVis_0.6.0 tools_3.2.3 munsell_0.4.2
[17] parallel_3.2.3 colorspace_1.2-6
I am aware that here a similar question is asked, but less detailed: Login issue with gconnect() in gtrendsR package
Please, let me know if any more info is required.
