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 correct method of the requests module to get the Hacker News post's JSON object.
Print out the response, parsed as a JSON.
Assign the "score" key of the post to post_score.

Take Hint (-30 XP)