Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs
Integrating third-party libraries and APIs is essential for efficient Python development, enabling the creation of scalable applications and facilitating data handling from various sources. Libraries like requests, BeautifulSoup, and pandas provide vital tools for web requests, data extraction, and data management. Mastery of these libraries fosters automation capabilities and enhances productivity, marking a professional transition in programming skills.
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What we have learnt
- Using external libraries streamlines development processes.
- Understanding REST APIs and how to consume them is crucial.
- Effective data management includes handling formats like JSON and XML.
Key Concepts
- -- REST API
- A web service that uses standard HTTP methods to interact with resources, enabling data exchange over the web.
- -- Web Scraping
- Extracting data from websites by parsing their HTML content, often using libraries such as BeautifulSoup.
- -- JSON
- JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight data interchange format that is easy to read and write for humans and machines.
- -- BeautifulSoup
- A Python library used for parsing HTML and XML documents and extracting data from them.
- -- requests
- A Python library that simplifies making HTTP requests to access web resources and APIs.
- -- pandas
- A powerful Python library for data manipulation and analysis that provides data structures like DataFrames for handling tabular data.
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