PIs (Application Programming Interface) have an enormous impact on the development, software, and programming communities. Not only are APIs useful, but a good amount of them are surprisingly simple to conduct basic interactions with. Programming languages can interact with APIs and perform tasks to achieve specific outcomes. We will use Python for this purpose in this article. Python is one of my preferred languages, and has especially useful modules for interacting with APIs. If you haven’t already looked at some of my articles talking about the history, overview, basics, and IDEs associated to the Python language I will include them below.

If you haven’t ever worked with an API before you should learn about HTTP methods. I will only go into the basics for this article. I would also recommend Postman to learn and do basic tasks when beginning with HTTP methods. Postman is useful for several other purposes, as well.

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