Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Reading JSON data with requests
Lecture: Working with JSON from Python
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While HTML and text is really made for humans, that is not the focus of this course, a focus of this course is
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to consume data and formats meant for programs and computers. So, what does that include, well, Json is the most popular
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exchange format these days, especially around HTTP restful services, back when Soap was popular XML was really important
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and we saw how XML being passed around or take things like rss feeds,
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there is a number of older services that still use xml so we are going to work with that,
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obviously binary data is very often something we want to access and download, think of a zip file or an image or something and then.
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Soap, we are also going to come back and look at Soap, but for now, let's focus on Json, so we are going to look at
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how we consume Json services, obviously, but before we do that, I think the right place to start is for us actually
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to just do a little bit of work with Json in Python and leave the network out of it.