Using the requests package
Using urllib to integrate APIs can result in verbose and complex code as you need to take care of a lot of additional things like encoding and decoding responses.
As an alternative to urllib, the requests Python package offers a simpler way to integrate APIs. A lot of functionality is available out of the box with requests, which makes your code a lot easier to write and read. Let's try the same exercise again but now with the requests package.
Remember, as with the previous exercise, the URL for the Lyrics API is http://localhost:3000/lyrics.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to APIs in Python
Exercise instructions
- Import the
requestspackage. - Pass the URL
http://localhost:3000/lyricsto therequests.getmethod. - Print out the response text.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import the requests package
import ____
# Pass the API URL to the get function
response = requests.get(____)
# Print out the text attribute of the response object
print(response.____)