GET Request to Server

Lesson 9 of 10 in Coddy's API in Python course.

Challenge

Medium

Now that you've established a proper connection with an API, let's send a GET request for a specific location.

Send a GET request to: https://wttr.in/London?format=j1 (the ?format=j1 part tells the service to return JSON)
Save the requests.get() object to a variable called response
Parse the response using response.json() and save it to a variable called data
The current conditions live inside data["current_condition"][0]. Pull out the temperature (temp_C) and the description (weatherDesc[0]["value"]), then print both

Try it yourself

import requests

# Step 1: Send GET request for London weather (j1 = JSON format)
response = # Your code here

# Step 2: Parse JSON response
data = # Your code here

# Step 3: Print weather information
current = data["current_condition"][0]
print("Temperature:", current["temp_C"], "°C")
print("Description:", current["weatherDesc"][0]["value"])

All lessons in API in Python

1Introduction

What is API?API Methods JSON - API Response

2API in Python

requests Library for API requests Method to Retrieve requests Method to Send Data Manipulating requests Response

3Weather Fetch API Program

API Connection to ServerGET Request to ServerDisplaying Appropriate Results