Practical Data Wrangling

Using Python to retrieve data from APIs

The first step is to import the requests module. I will also import the json module, which can be used to output the data retrieved from the API to a JSON file. In the beginning of get_recent_issues.py, the following code imports the requests and json modules:

import requestsimport json

The next step is to create a string called base URL. The base URL is the beginning part of the URL, and can be followed by additional parameters. For now, the base URL is all you need, but in the next section you will build on it in order get data iteratively. In the following continuation of get_recent_issues.py, a string is created containing the base URL for the issues resource of the Seeclickfix API:

import requests ...