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Exercise

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.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import the requests package.
  • Pass the URL http://localhost:3000/lyrics to the requests.get method.
  • Print out the response text.