Modern APIs with FastAPI and Python Transcripts
Chapter: Building a realistic API
Lecture: Calling open weather map synchronously
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One of the really cool and important things we can do in FastAPI is work with it's async capabilities, and I want to make sure we focus right
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in on that. So first we're gonna implement this without async, and then we're gonna come around and add async capabilities to
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it. So let's go over here, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna use requests temporarily, and we're gonna go back to something else,
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httpX. So, let's suppose we've got our requests here and we want to do a get against this. So have the response equals get and well,
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right now we have the city and country, but we're not taking into account the state, are we? So we'll say "if state is not"
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We'll just say "if state" we're gonna do like this. else, we're just gonna do the required values which are country and city. We're gonna pass our
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API key along. Our units are also required. We do need to do more validation. Like, for example, you can't put "Oregon",
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You have to put "or", you can't put anything for units. It has to be metric, standard, or imperial. The country has to be a two digit code and so on.
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We're gonna add that validation in a moment. But let's just get this kind of sort of working. So here we go over here and say
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URL and we'll say "response dot", First, we could say, raise for status, whoops, raise for status like that, so make sure nothing went wrong. Later,
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We're gonna actually want to come back and put better error handling there.
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But that's fine. And then we're going to get, hopefully if things went okay,
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we're going to go over here and say we'd like to go to our response and convert some kind of JSON response over to an actual Python dictionary.
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And I'm gonna print out the data and then return the data, which is not actually what we want.
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You'll see, it's close, but has way more information than we need. Alright, moment of truth. Click on it here, see what we get.
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Yes, look at that. This is what we got back for the weather in
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Oregon, units Imperial. So here's our location we have currently it's raining with light rain and the temperature is 56 degrees F.
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Want to see that in Celsius? Let's put in metric. Ah, sweet! 13.51 degrees Celsius. Light wind. I'm guessing
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this is meters, meters per second, kilometers an hour. I don't know. We'd have to look in the docs to see what that is,
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but check this out. So we've got the Portland US. We wanted to change it over to Portland,
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Tennessee. You could see it doesn't really show you over here, but the temperature, get it to scroll back.
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The locations have changed. The forecast is now clear. It's a little bit warmer, right? As you would expect being further south in the US.
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How cool is that? So we've got our data working, we've got our API call working. The other thing we want to do is like,
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see all this extra stuff? I mean, our goal is not to just pass along this information. I mean partly it's mostly just to be an example that we can use.
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But let's suppose that this right here is really all that we care about. This part right here. Notice that's under main.
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So we could go down here and say forecast with an E, there, is going to be data of main, and then we'll return forecast.
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Right? So let's run it one more time. Check it out. Here we go. Here it is in Tennessee, and if we don't put a state, we don't have to put a country,
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we can just go to Portland, how about that. Perfect the default over at open weather API is, the units are metric as well.
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So here's what it's like in Portland, Oregon, right now. We don't have the clouds and whatnot, but, you know, just for our simple example,
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let's suppose this is all that we want to return, like the current temperature and the low and the high.
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Pretty awesome, right? So now we've been able to return that from our get report here, which goes right out the door over there.
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There's more stuff that we could be doing, like converting error messages to proper responses and so on, which we're not doing yet, but we will.
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So there's stuff to be happening over here that's gonna make this interesting and useful, but for now, we're just passing it along. Pretty cool.
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We got our open weather map API integrated.