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Working with APIs for Data Collection

Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.

Summary

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

How to Learn This

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

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