WEBVTT 0 00:00.990 --> 00:01.350 All right. 1 00:01.350 --> 00:06.350 So the first thing we need to do that we learnt in order to work with APIs is to 2 00:06.510 --> 00:08.910 import the requests module. 3 00:09.390 --> 00:11.520 And once we've imported that, 4 00:11.640 --> 00:16.640 we need to get a response from the URL that we saw over here. 5 00:18.270 --> 00:22.440 As I mentioned, the end point is everything that's before the question mark. 6 00:22.890 --> 00:26.760 So let's put that in as the URL for our get request. 7 00:27.270 --> 00:30.180 And then in addition, we need to add some parameters. 8 00:30.690 --> 00:35.040 So let's make our parameters a Python dictionary, 9 00:35.760 --> 00:40.110 and the key must match the key that's shown here 10 00:40.500 --> 00:43.830 and the value has to match the value that's given here as well. 11 00:44.250 --> 00:46.770 So we've got two keys; amount and type. 12 00:47.220 --> 00:49.680 So these are both going to be strings, 13 00:49.710 --> 00:53.340 but the values can be numbers if it is appropriate. 14 00:53.850 --> 00:58.170 So amount sets the number of questions we want back from the API, 15 00:58.770 --> 01:03.270 and then the type sets the type of questions that we want. So in our case, 16 01:03.300 --> 01:08.220 we want the boolean data type that matches this exact entry. 17 01:08.520 --> 01:11.160 So that way we get back true-false questions. 18 01:11.940 --> 01:16.410 Now that we've done that we can use this parameters dictionary as the 19 01:16.410 --> 01:17.243 params, 20 01:17.700 --> 01:22.700 and then we want our response to raise an exception if there were any errors. 21 01:23.460 --> 01:27.750 And then we're going to get our response to give us the data using the JSON 22 01:27.750 --> 01:31.290 method. If this is our data, 23 01:31.320 --> 01:34.650 let's go ahead and print it and see what it looks like. 24 01:35.100 --> 01:40.100 We can run this particular file, data.py, by right-clicking and just saying 25 01:40.170 --> 01:44.940 run data. And once it's done, you can see we printed out the data 26 01:45.450 --> 01:50.450 and the part that we're interested in is the value of this key results, 27 01:51.300 --> 01:55.050 because it contains the list of questions. 28 01:55.590 --> 01:59.760 That's the only part we're interested in. So in order to tap into that, 29 02:00.060 --> 02:03.750 we have to add a set of square brackets and then pass in the key 30 02:04.260 --> 02:08.100 which is called results. So let's put that as the key. 31 02:08.400 --> 02:13.400 And now we're fetching all of the items that are the results from this data 32 02:14.430 --> 02:19.140 object that we get back. So now, if I run this again, you can see 33 02:19.140 --> 02:22.560 we now have a list of question objects 34 02:22.890 --> 02:25.080 which each contains a dictionary 35 02:25.350 --> 02:29.520 and it looks now pretty much identical to this structure that we had before. 36 02:30.300 --> 02:34.890 Now, instead of printing this, we can save it as the question_data. 37 02:36.450 --> 02:40.200 So now this question_data and has replaced this question_data, 38 02:40.620 --> 02:41.760 and as I mentioned, 39 02:41.790 --> 02:46.790 we can run our main.py and it should now work just as it did before. 40 02:49.200 --> 02:54.200 But this time it's going to use questions that came from our API. 41 02:54.840 --> 02:58.890 The cold war ended with Joseph Stalin's death, true or false. 42 02:59.170 --> 03:03.430 I think that's actually false. But notice how 43 03:03.430 --> 03:05.830 when we get the data back from the API, 44 03:06.160 --> 03:11.160 it's formatted in such a way that we've got certain symbols that have been 45 03:11.290 --> 03:14.290 encoded using this particular format 46 03:14.650 --> 03:19.650 because all of this is meant to represent a single apostrophe. In the next 47 03:19.900 --> 03:20.350 lesson, 48 03:20.350 --> 03:25.120 I'm going to show you how we can format the text that we get back to turn this 49 03:25.120 --> 03:28.030 encoding into the actual characters 50 03:28.180 --> 03:32.650 that it should be. For all of that and more, I'll see you on the next lesson.