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Accessing APIs

4.5 - Accessing APIs

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does API stand for?

💡 Hint: It's a communication method in software.

Question 2 Easy

What data format do most APIs return?

💡 Hint: Think of a lightweight text format.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does API stand for?

Application Programming Interface
Advanced Program Interface
Application Programming Interface

💡 Hint: The first word is 'Application'.

Question 2

True or False: An HTTP GET request is used to send data to the server.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about what 'GET' means.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Select an API that requires an API key. Write a Python script to access the API and print the response data.

💡 Hint: Check their documentation for usage examples.

Challenge 2 Hard

Using the requests library in Python, write a script that retrieves data from an API and converts it to a DataFrame, demonstrating error handling if the request fails.

💡 Hint: Remember to check the response's status code before converting.

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