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Chapter: Days 43-45: Consuming HTTP services
Lecture: Exploring the service
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Over here at movie_service by talkpython.fm
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we have a service that has, I guess probably a couple
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thousand movies.
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Notice down here this does not have all the movie data that
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you might want, it only has some of the movies, but it's
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more than enough for us to play with.
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There's three things that this service will let you do.
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It will let you basically search by keyword, so we come over
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here and call API search, and here we're searching for run.
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And firefox likes to give you this pretty view here,
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let's go in and just look at the raw, so you can know what
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you're getting.
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So here, the keyword is run, and we've got some hits.
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And hits were for things like 'The Rundown',
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and 'Runaway Bride', and 'Bladerunner' and 'Chicken Run',
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and all these movies here.
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So we'll be able to put whatever we want in the
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here, if we wanted away, boom.
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'Flushed Away' is the first result.
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It apparently has to do with sewers and rats and frogs.
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Anyway, we can search for these movies using the service,
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and what we get back is this format here called JSON,
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which is the JavaScript Object Notation.
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This is probably the most popular format for data exchange
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over these HTP services.
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So it's great we can do it here, but we also want to do this
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in a slightly more structured way.
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So we're going to look at two ways.
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One using a tool specifically for accessing and working with
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APIs, cause it is pretty simple to go up here and type enter
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but what if our interaction required us to change the
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headers?
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If our interaction required us to do an HTTP POST rather than
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a GET, which is what you normally do in browsers.
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That gets tricky.
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So we're going to see a tool that helps us explore the full
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spectrum of APIs, and then we're going to interact with it
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from Python.
