#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 61-63: Using the Github API with Python
Lecture: Third day: more practice / requests-cache
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Right, welcome back to the third day of
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the GitHub API project.
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I hope you had some fun by now using the GitHub API
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and you chose an interesting project to work on,
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and this gives you some more links.
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So here's the GitHub Developer REST API
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Version 3 documentation.
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You probably will use this a lot,
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although it should also try to help in the pdb inspection
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techniques I showed you in this lesson.
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And maybe if you're not making the GitHub objects
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with a token, you might run into limitations
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of the amount of calls you can do to the API.
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Here is an article about request cache.
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The cache is close to the API in an SQI database,
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so when you're developing your cool app,
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and you do a lot of calls to the API,
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this could actually be useful to
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keep that limit down.
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The other thing is that this might
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speed up the response from the API,
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because it just creates your local database.
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So this just an extra pointer you might
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want to check out when working with
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any API actually.
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And don't forget to share your work.
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You can use #100DaysOfCode, there's a lot of people
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doing that, and that's getting quite some traction.
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And of course, feel free to include
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Talk Python and PyBites in your tweets.
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We are really passionate about this stuff,
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and love to see what you guys are doing
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and coming up with.
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Have fun and go learn a lot of API GitHub goodness,
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and Python of course.