Quick guide on working with Data APIs in Python
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In a nutshell there is some data out there you want to get or access programmatically with a python script and this process can be divided into requesting, parsing and filtering a response...A bit on terminology :API: Application Programming Interface A specification that the data provider gives you so you can access and get their data, if they don't provide one the alternative is usually web scraping which we won't cover here.Endpoint: Where to send your request, usually some url like "https://api.dataprovider"Request: The act of…
