Context
Over the years I’ve had to get overly familiar with API requests, and have reimplemented the same design pattern across multiple projects involving the retrieval, processing and display of API data.
This article is a collection of these common workflows.
In Python 🐍
Useful Libraries
1import requests
2import pandas as pd
3import jsonReference: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/
API Calls
1endpoint = "http://www.datasources.com"
2response = requests.get(endpoint)
3data = response.json()