REST API Call with Python - DEVASC (200-901) Topic

For the DEVASC (200-901) exam, you need to be familiar with how to perform a basic REST API call using Python. We’re going to look at this using a free online resource that provides a working API to test against, and we’ll use the documentation provided to construct a Python script for interacting with that API.

Enjoy the training!

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[noahleaman]

One note about response.json() method. It doesn’t return json. The telltale sign is the single quotes in the returned value. (valid json uses double quotes). The json() requests method is a json decoder method which expects a json string and returns a python data type like dict or list.

[NowWhat]

This was excellent. Thanks for sharing.

[scotter]

Thanks for this! I really like your style, taking it step by step, speaking clearly, etc. I'm somewhat new to Python, having only built like 6 or 7 applications. Not super familiar with industry-standard buzzwords. As I job hunt, I see a lot of "RESTful API" as a skill desired. Everything you show here is the exact way I've accessed APIs in a couple projects and I wonder if that means "RESTful" is something I can claim knowledge of? I had an assumption it was somehow "more" than this.

[fabrice]

I think the VScode equivalent to atom-beautify might be JSON Tools.
Just remember that json requires double-quotes for strings, whereas python can use single quotes.

[Deepakpal-dqss]

How to generate token for restapi using python .when restapi is password protected