5b-Demo-Grabbing-eBird-data-with-Requests-and-bs4.ipynb

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    "## DEPRECATED ##\n",
    "> The service is no longer supported; Access is via API now and requires a [free] key...\n",
    "\n",
    "This is a quick demo of something we'll pick up next, namely grabbing very specific data chunks using the modules we've just learned plus application programming interfaces (APIs). "
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    "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n",
    "import urllib\n",
    "import requests"
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    "r = requests.get(\"http://ebird.org/ws1.1/data/obs/geo/recent?lng=-111.83&lat=41.74\")"
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    "soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,'lxml')"
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    "for sighting in soup.find_all('sighting'):\n",
    "    print (sighting.lat.text, sighting.lng.text, sighting.find('sci-name').text)"
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