Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Reading JSON data with requests
Lecture: Concept: Consuming GitHub JSON API
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Let's review the core concepts about accessing Json services with Requests, of course we are going to start by importing Request,
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I have to have the url to the service that we are going to call, in this case we are just going to do a basic get so we say request.get given the url,
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we get our response back and we've worked with this already, but the thing that is new this time is we now can call .json
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and that will directly translate the text, string representation of Json into a Python dictionary and then we just work with the data in there
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in our example we got the clone url for the get clone command from wherever repository we were pointing at in the API.