Week 4: Learn how to extract data from APIs

Learning goals

• Send HTTP requests to a web API, and retrieve JSON responses
• Use parameters to modify the results of an API call
• Iterate over multiple pages of JSON responses
• Extract and store results of an API request in lists of dictionaries, and files

Lecture

Laptop required!

• In-class tutorial ( view slides, download tutorial, view tutorial in Google Colab)

Coaching session

• Please check out the project page.

After the lecture and coaching session

• Complete the exercises in the tutorial of this week
• Please work through challenges #3.1-#3.3 in “Fields of Gold”.