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Python for Excel Users
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Python for Excel Users

by Tracy Stephens
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
8h 54m
English
No Starch Press
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8RETRIEVING DATA FROM THE INTERNET

A chapter opening image, taken from the front cover. Shows a robot exploding out of a spreadsheet, with empty cells flying out from around the area of impact.

The chapter focuses on APIs, which allow you to write scripts to retrieve data from external sources across the internet. We’ll cover the basics of making API requests and processing the responses, and we’ll consider some of the complexities that come up when working with APIs, like pagination, error handling, and authentication. In the end, we’ll show how to write code for making API requests in clean, organized, and maintainable functions that you can use and reuse in whatever capacity you may need.

In Excel, your work is siloed; it lives only within the Excel application and the Microsoft applications that ...

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