About Lesson
APIs
Making API Requests
- Definition: An API (Application Programming Interface) allows applications to communicate with each other. Making API requests involves sending HTTP requests to an API endpoint and receiving data in response.
- Example: python
import requests api_url = "https://api.example.com/data" response = requests.get(api_url) data = response.json() print(data) # Output: JSON data from the API
Parsing JSON Data
- Definition: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. Parsing JSON data involves converting the JSON string into a Python dictionary or list.
- Example: python
import json json_data = '{"name": "Alice", "age": 25}' parsed_data = json.loads(json_data) print(parsed_data) # Output: {'name': 'Alice', 'age': 25}