Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: XML services with requests
Lecture: Concept: Consuming XML data from an HTTP service
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So to review, working with xml from services is pretty straightforward.
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Again, because it's the easiest way to do stuff on http,
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we are going to work with requests,
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and then, we are also going to use the ElementTree,
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and we are going to call request.get given url,
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that is going to get us the response, remember,
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check the status code, make sure everything worked out okay
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and then we can get a hold of the actual xml as a string, via response.text
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and then we are going to use ElementTree and parse it as fromstring,
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and once we have that, we are off to the races,
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we now have an xml dom in memory and we just do xpath queries against it
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as we saw in the previous section.
