requests library
Lesson 3 of 7 in Coddy's Random Fact Generator - Python Project course.
To “fetch” (or get) the content of the API we will use the library called requests.
Using the get method it's possible to get a web page content:
import requests
response = requests.get("https://someurlhere")The response object has many attributes, the one we will look at is text, which returns a string of the website content:
import requests
response = requests.get("https://someurlhere")
content = response.text
Challenge
EasyNow, change the function (get_fact) body so that it will get the content from the API end point (from the URL in the previous step) and return the response text!
Don't forget to
import requests
Try it yourself
def get_fact():
return 'https://uselessfacts.jsph.pl/api/v2/facts/random'