Libraries and APIs

Question 1

How do you get a response from an API?

Answer 1

requests.get(URL) returns the response code

Question 2

What do the different response codes mean?

Answer 2

200: Everything went okay.
301: You are being redirected (domain or endpoint may have changed)
401: You are not authenticated.
403: Forbidden. You do not have permission.
404: Resource not found.
503: Server is not ready to handle the request.

1xx: received, processing. Information code.
2xx: success
3xx: redirection
4xx: client error
5xx: server error

Question 3

How do you get json from a response?

Answer 3

url.json in some cases
response.text (often formatted as json)
response.json() json data from response

Question 4

What does JSON stand for?

Answer 4

JavaScript Object Notation

Question 5

How to convert between json and python objects?

Answer 5

json.loads(str) makes a python object from a string
json.dumps(obj) makes json from a python object

Question 6

How to use json.dumps() to format json into something more readable?

Answer 6

json.dumpts(obj=some_obj, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
sort_keys=True skips unreadable data

Question 7

How to use parameters with response.get()?

Answer 7

parameters = dict
response.get(url, params=parameters)

Question 8

dir(module) does what?

Answer 8

Gets a list of the functions and variables in the module