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.
Deze oefening maakt deel uit van de cursus
Introduction to Data Engineering
Oefeninstructies
- Use the
requestsmodule 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 topost_score.
Praktische interactieve oefening
Probeer deze oefening eens door deze voorbeeldcode in te vullen.
import requests
# Fetch the Hackernews post
resp = requests.____("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/16222426.json")
# Print the response parsed as JSON
print(resp.____())
# Assign the score of the test to post_score
post_score = resp.___()["____"]
print(post_score)