How to Write Python Scripts to Analyze JSON APIs and Sort Results

In this Python Programming Tutorial, we will be learning how to grab data from a JSON API, parse out the information we want, and then sort the data using a custom key. The API we will be using is a JSON API for Homebrew Packages and we will be sorting the packages by their popularity. We cover a lot of topics in this tutorial. We will be using the Requests Library, converting to/from JSON, reading and writing to files, writing our own sorting function, and more. Let's get started...

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[coreyms]

We're covering a lot in this video. We're going to see how to request data from a JSON API, parse out the information we want, sort the data using a custom key, and a lot more. We're going to be using the Homebrew API, but you don't need to use Homebrew or a Mac to follow along. This can apply to many other APIs you'd like to analyze with Python.

As I mention in the video, our final result _does_ have a little more functionality than what we can get from their existing API, so I believe it was definitely a useful exercise. For example, we can filter popular packages by a keyword in the description, which is a nice edition. Hope you all find this helpful!

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A python mini-project : exactly what I needed. I will probably re-watch the video a couple of times, as there is a lot to digest. Thank you Corey

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I really appreciate the courtesy you show other websites. I'm sure Homebrew was whacked last night with a bunch of JSON get requests--I know I tried it out--but I made sure to sleep each request between calls like you said.

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Huge thank you for this tutorial. I’ve been writing in PHP for years but more and more of the api’s I use have native Python SDK’s so makes sense to write in Python. This was very insightful to see where python is similar to PHP and where you can take a different route to get the same result. Really cool.

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Great video, thanks a lot for sharing, it answered my question that I was Googling. I also worked out how to write 30d-90d and 365d as separate columns, I resorted to list comprehension, there might be a better way. Looked through the comments but didn't see anyone mentioning this. On that note: I see a lot of comments saying like: I would be keen to see how you could bla bla, I think comments here should focus on the content of this video, rather than asking for various imaginations and new assignments, please!