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Stop 06 · Python for Data AnalysisTopics · 11/12

Working With APIs in Python

Part of the Data Analyst Roadmap

In short

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

  1. 1Use the requests library to pull data from a free public API.
  2. 2Practice parsing a JSON API response into a Pandas DataFrame.
  3. 3Learn basic API concepts: endpoints, parameters, and authentication keys.

More topics at this stop

Python Basics for AnalystsJupyter NotebooksPandas FundamentalsDataFrames & SeriesData Cleaning With PandasMerging & Joining DataFramesGroupBy & Aggregation in PandasNumPy BasicsMatplotlib & SeabornReading/Writing CSV, Excel & JSONBasic Web Scraping (Overview)

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