APIs

Question 1

What is PIP?

Answer 1

A package manager used to install libraries that other people have written.

Question 2

What is API?

Answer 2

Application Programming Interface - allows two programmes to interact/send data to each other.
API request: when your program asks an API for something or to complete a specific action
API response - the result of your request

Question 3

Status code: 200, 404, 400

Answer 3

200: OK (request worked)
404: not found (could not find requested URL)
400: bad request (request is not understood)
500: Internal Server Error

Question 4

Example API code

Answer 4

import requests
from pprint import pprint as pp

url = f’https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/{pokemon_number}/’
response = requests.get(url)

data = response.json()
pp(data)

Question 5

Types of API methods

Answer 5

GET - read record
POST - create record
PUT - update record
DELETE - delete