API Tutorial

Inspiration

My team is planning on using APIs in our Hack the North hack so I decided I would familiarize myself with making API requests in Python.

What it does

I followed the tutorial by writing out each line of code that the tutorial had, making sure I understood what each line did before I wrote it.

How we built it

I used conda to download the requests package into a virtual environment. Fortunately, this process went smoothly (usually never does) so when it happened, I was so relieved.

Challenges we ran into

Not any challenges, since it is a beginner tutorial and I wasn't a complete stranger to APIs in python before this tutorial.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

I learned how to give requests to an API so that I can receive data back.

What's next for API Tutorial

I might continue following along with the intermediate tutorial and then using what I learned for my Hack the North hack.

Built With

• python