As soon as http://thecatapi.com supports json it will be my goto site for handy json and that day is coming soon. maybe sooner if you vote now. http://www.websitegoodies.com/pollresults.php?id=76423 On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:28 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:

[1] also a missing footnote from my previous post: https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/py_async_get_chemicals. py

Feel free to hit against my $5/mo Hacker account with pythonAnywhere for teaching your students how to go against an API with urllib or requests or whatever e.g.:

url = "http://thekirbster.pythonanywhere.com/api/elements?elem=Fe"

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: html = response.read()

html Out[11]: b'[26, "Fe", "Iron", 55.8452, "transition metal", 1493462392, "KTU"]'

The API itself is pretty simple and documented on the home page: http://thekirbster.pythonanywhere.com

Feel free to ask me questions on this thread on edu-sig. I'm not selling you a product, just yakking about a free service. The complete source code for this tiny Flask application is also visible on Github. I use this for teaching my courses.

Kirby

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