Phase 6 · Python for Data Analysis
TopicsWorking With APIs in Python
Part of the Data Analyst Roadmap.
Summary
Using the requests library to pull data directly from a web API — useful when the data you need isn't sitting in a file or database, but has to be fetched live.
How to Learn This
- 1Use the requests library to pull data from a free public API.
- 2Practice parsing a JSON API response into a Pandas DataFrame.
- 3Learn basic API concepts: endpoints, parameters, and authentication keys.
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