Manipulating requests Response

Lesson 7 of 10 in Coddy's API in Python course.

Once you either get() or post() into an API, you will receive a response object which we stored in the response variable in our last examples.

As we learned in the JSON lesson, these responses are in JSON format or in Python's native dictionary format.

To receive the JSON format of your response. You have to say,

data = response.json()

You can then parse through the necessary values in the response, using the keying method of the dictionary.

Challenge

Medium

Instructions:

Send a GET request to: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1
Save the requests.get() object to a variable called response
Parse and save response.json() into a variable called data
Use the keying method to save data["name"] into a variable called result
Print result - it should always display: Leanne Graham

Try it yourself

import requests

# Step 1: Send GET request
response = # Your code here

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

# Step 3: Get the name
result = # Your code here

# Step 4: Print the result
print(result)

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 DataManipulating requests Response

3Weather Fetch API Program

API Connection to Server GET Request to Server Displaying Appropriate Results