#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 43-45: Consuming HTTP services
Lecture: Your turn: Day 2
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Second day of this section is going to
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actually be to work with
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an entirely different API,
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but another one around the podcast
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just to keep it simple and stable.
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So what your going to do is we're going to
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interact with this search.talkpython.fm
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Now if you're over here and you're
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on Talk Python,
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and you try to search,
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you could say "I would like to search for
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let's say, a 100DaysOfCode".
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Pull that up you can see
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it went back and found a couple of elements,
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an episode and a transcript,
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and it did this in a ridiculously
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fast period of time.
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But there's actually an API underneath here
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there's JSON API,
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and you can write queries you
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can search yourself right?
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it's open, and searchable for you
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and it's exactly like what you've been
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working with.
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So let's go over here and play
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with this a little bit.
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Click on this, and see the raw data,
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This is what you get back if you search for
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tests, so whatever you do is you put
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the little query string pieces there,
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so we'll put a100DaysOfCode,
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uh, and it's going to come back
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Firefox tries to make that response pretty,
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but it's going to come back looking
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something like this.
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Alright, so this is the API we're
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going to work with.
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So the first thing you're donna do is
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explore the API imposement,
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and your goal for the day
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is to create a program that
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does the following:
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It gets a search word from the user,
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It calls the search service using that
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API we just looked at,
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it makes sure the response
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from the server was okay so request.
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response.raise_for_status I believe,
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And then you want to return
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just a basic dictionary of the results,
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and use that to list out the titles.
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So it should look something like this on Day 2.
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Run your program, it has a
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little header if you want,
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ask the user for some search terms
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and it says "Boom. These are the titles."
