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Exercise

Fetch from an API

In the last video, you've seen that you can extract data from an API by sending a request to the API and parsing the response which was in JSON format. In this exercise, you'll be doing the same by using the requests library to send a request to the Hacker News API.

Hacker News is a social news aggregation website, specifically for articles related to computer science or the tech world in general. Each post on the website has a JSON representation, which you'll see in the response of the request in the exercise.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Use the requests module to get the Hacker News post's JSON object.
  • Print out the response, parsed as a JSON.
  • Parsing as JSON again, assign the "score" key of the post to post_score.