Author

L. W.Wachira

in your terminal import request

pip3 install requests

print(response)

It should give you a response 200 - okay

print(response.json()) method

To get all the actual data.

print specifics you can iterate after request.get in the loop

• Convert the response to JSON data = response.json()

• Ensure the response contains 'items'

if 'items' in data: for item in data['items']: # Check if 'owner' exists in the item if 'owner' in item: owner = item['owner'] # Print the 'link' and 'account_id' if they exist print(owner.get('link', 'No link available')) print(owner.get('account_id', 'No account ID available')) print() else: print("No items found in the response.")

How we can create our own API

• create a folder here its api_buildd, enter the folder and run the following commands to enter our virtual environment. python3 -m venv .venv (creates a virtual env in .venv folder) source .venv/bin/activate (to activate the folder) pip3 install flask (to install dependancies in our venv)
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we can put our dependancies in a file

pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

create our file application.py

touch application.py

to run our application (always make sure you are in .venv)

export FLASK_APP=application.py export FLASK_ENV=development flask run

to connect to a DB, we will consider an ORM

quit .venv terminal => ctrl+c python3 (in the terminal)

• After updating you model on application.py: from application import db (in the terminal for python3) from application import db,app, Drink

from application import db, app with app.app_context(): ... db.create_all() print("Database tables created successfully!")