Practical Network Automation

Consuming the API in Python

Now, as we have the API created, let us see how to consume the API in Python.

The code is as follows:

import requestsr = requests.get('http://localhost/apitest/api/apitest/5')print (r.json())

The output for the preceding code is as follows:

For API interaction, we use the requests library in Python. When we perform a call to the API, the API returns the string in JSON format. The r.json() method converts the returned JSON to extract the text value and displays the output as Hello World.

In a similar way, we can use the requests library to fetch API results from various web-based API calls. The result is generally ...