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Chapter: Days 43-45: Consuming HTTP services
Lecture: Introduction to HTTP APIs
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Hello, this is Michael Kennedy
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and I will be your guide for Day 10, 11 and 12.
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And during these three days you're
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going to work with JSON APIs and
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in particular with a couple of search-based APIs.
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But of course, what you'll learn here
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you'll be able to apply to pretty much any JSON API.
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APIs are really important.
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These are the way that you reach out and
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you add superpowers to your code, to your application.
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You might write an application that has
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some data in the database,
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it's got some information that users have input,
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but maybe you want to add weather information,
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or integrate with Github or talk to Twitter.
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All of these use APIs.
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And so we're going to look at
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the foundation of APIs in this challenge,
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which is basically HTTP and JSON.
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And we're going to do that from Python, of course.
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So we're going to work with two services.
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One service I'm going to demonstrate
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how we write code against it,
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and then I'll give you another service
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for your code challenge that you can play with,
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and if you don't like either of those services
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for your code challenge, feel free to
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just go find another one.
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You'll probably have enough information
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to do something pretty interesting
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after this series of videos.
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So let's go look at this movie db search service.
