Week 8 - HTTP Requests

Housekeeping things

• Homework 3 due Thursday. Let me know if you need help. Piazza has some good questions.
• Homework 2 is graded. Please double check I added up your score correctly. Comment on the homework in GitHub if you have questions.
• Trouble with pgAdmin? A few of you are getting errors. Please let me know what's going on.

Lecture Outline

• Homework 2 walkthrough
• Felix talks about HTTP requests Slides and Crawler Example
• Demo HTTP requests

Lab Outline

Lab

• API review
• Anatomy of an API request
• Explore some APIs
  • MapBox Geocoding API
  • MapBox Directions API
  • MapBox Static Maps API
• Creating re-usable functions

Homework

• Keep working on Homework 3, due Thursday
• HTTP requests explainer
• Play with some of the APIs listed in the Lecture demo