Week 4) Building your API skills

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

• In-class tutorial on working with APIs

Coaching session

• Focus on refining your API data extraction skills

After the lecture and coaching session

• Complete the exercises in the tutorial of this week
• Work through challenges to solidify your understanding of API data extraction