#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 43-45: Consuming HTTP services
Lecture: Demo: Data version one: dicts
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So we've seen that we've downloaded the data
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from our search service and we have created
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the right URL that works, we already tested that
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in our browser and printed out the text.
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So the next thing we need to do is convert
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the text from JSON format into Python dictionaries.
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Now we could use the json library in Python
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but request has a little goody for us here
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so we can say results equals response.json,
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that's all we need, it's converted to JSON
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so we could print out, it's converted to Python
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dictionary so we could print out the type of results
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and we could also print out the results themselves
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so if we do that, notice we get a dictionary and here
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we have the keyword and then we have the hits,
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which is a list of objects that have titles.
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Let's try to print out, let's try to return those
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and then at the program level, print them out.
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So, get rid of that and we'll just return
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results.get hits.
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Right, we don't care about the extra data,
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we just want the results.
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And then over here, we're going to get those results back
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and we can say, for are in results print,
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let's just print out the title.
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Title is, let's, keep going with the f-strings, huh?
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Say are .get, now notice we have to treat this
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as a dictionary, we'll prove this in a moment,
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like that.
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Okay, let's run this and see what we get.
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Man, look at that, title.
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Blade Runner, Maze Runner, Kite Runner,
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something else, Logan's Run and so on.
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Awesome and we could even do a little
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bit better, we could say, print,
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there are length of results,
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movies found, something like that.
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There are six movies found, okay.
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Excellent, you might want to do a little test movie,
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1 movie, 2 movies, 0 movies, things like that
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but we're going to just keep it always plural here.
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Alright so this is pretty good but notice this,
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I'm not loving this at all and the more we have to write
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out there, we could say something like that and IMDB score,
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let's say we're going to write
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that out so we'll say, are .get what,
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what do you put here?
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I have no idea.
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It's completely annoying that you get no help
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about this, we could go look this up but let's go
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and actually improve that in the next video.
