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API requests

Now it's your turn to pull some movie data down from the Open Movie Database (OMDB) using their API. The movie you'll query the API about is The Social Network. Recall that, in the video, to query the API about the movie Hackers, Hugo's query string was 'http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=hackers' and had a single argument t=hackers.

Note: recently, OMDB has changed their API: you now also have to specify an API key. This means you'll have to add another argument to the URL: apikey=72bc447a.

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Importing Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Import the requests package.
  • Assign to the variable url the URL of interest in order to query 'http://www.omdbapi.com' for the data corresponding to the movie The Social Network. The query string should have two arguments: apikey=72bc447a and t=the+social+network. You can combine them as follows: apikey=72bc447a&t=the+social+network.
  • Print the text of the response object r by using its text attribute and passing the result to the print() function.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import requests package


# Assign URL to variable: url


# Package the request, send the request and catch the response: r
r = requests.get(url)

# Print the text of the response
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