[Tutor] Info on APIs and handling JSON

[Anil Duggirala]

thanks a lot Mats,
that is what I was thinking. The info on JSON will however be useful to me anyways,
thanks a lot,

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, at 6:06 PM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 11/16/18 12:31 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > I have been looking for documentation about how to connect to APIs and
> > using the provided info within python. I have found a few websites
> > talking about very particular cases. Probably the most enlightening was
> > the 'requests' library documentation. Can someone please point me to
> > serious and comprehensive info on how to deal with APIs and then
> > handling JSON and other provided info in python? Maybe a book?
> 
> json handling is simple: the json module is part of the Python standard
> library.
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html
> 
> APIs have no specific answer.  An API is an Application Programming
> Interface, each is different and specific to the project in question but
> refers to how you communicate with the functionality of that project
> from your program. Some popular ones have Python adaptations available,
> otherwise you read the documentation and figure out how to code your
> own. Sometimes the API is a style that lets you use an existing Python
> project, even if it doesn't know anything about the thing you want to
> talk to. requests is a good example - is the project you're interested
> in provides a RESTful API, using HTTP protocols, then requests can
> certainly be used to talk to it, but you still need to discover the
> specifics and code them up yourself.  Other APIs provide other interface
> styles.
> 
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