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Phase 3 · Python for Data Science

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Working With APIs

Part of the Data Science Roadmap.

Summary

Using the requests library to pull data directly from a web API — a common way to source real datasets when nothing suitable exists as a static file.

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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