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Working with APIs for Data Collection

Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap

In short

Pulling structured data from public and third-party APIs for training or analysis — often faster and more reliable than scraping.

How to learn this

  1. 1Collect a small dataset from a public API and save it locally.
  2. 2Learn to handle pagination when an API returns data in pages.
  3. 3Practice respecting rate limits with retries and backoff.

More topics at this stop

SQL Basics (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)Working with Databases in PythonData Pipelines (Concept)ETL vs ELTBatch vs Streaming DataData Warehouses (Concept)Airflow Basics (Overview)Web Scraping (BeautifulSoup)

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