Making an API request
Forecasting systems start with a data pipeline that gathers new data from an API or other data source. In this exercise, you'll create the URL link and send a request to the EIA API to retrieve electricity data.
Note that working with the EIA API requires creating an API key; for this exercise, a demo API key has been set up for you.
The requests, os, and pandas packages, as pd, were imported for you.
Questo esercizio fa parte del corso
Designing Forecasting Pipelines for Production
Istruzioni dell'esercizio
- Extract the API key from the environment variable, saving it as
eia_api_key. - Create the full URL path by combining
api_url_pathandeia_api_key. - Make the request using the correct method and passing the full link.
Esercizio pratico interattivo
Prova a risolvere questo esercizio completando il codice di esempio.
# Extract the API key from the environment variable
eia_api_key = os.____('EIA_API_KEY')
# Create the full URL path
api_url = "https://api.eia.gov/v2/"
api_path = "electricity/rto/region-data/"
api_url_path = api_url + api_path + "data/&data[]=value"
full_path = ____ + "?api_key=" + ____
# Make the request
data = requests.____(____).json()
df = pd.DataFrame(data["response"]["data"])
print(df.head())