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By Brian King and Brian Hogan
An API, or Application Program Interface, enables developers to integrate one app with another. They expose some of a program’s inner workings in a limited way.
You can use APIs to get information from other programs or to automate things you normally do in your web browser. Sometimes you can use APIs to do things you just can’t do any other way. A surprising number of web properties offer web-based APIs alongside the more familiar website or mobile app, including Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, and DigitalOcean.
If you’ve worked your way through some tutorials on how to code in Python 3, and you’re comfortable with Python’s syntax, structure, and some built-in functions, you can write Python programs that take advantage of your favorite APIs.
In this guide, you will learn how to use Python with the DigitalOcean API to retrieve information about your DigitalOcean account. Then we’ll look at how you can apply what you’ve learned to GitHub’s API.
When you’re finished, you’ll understand the concepts common across web APIs, and you’ll have a step-by-step process and working code samples that you can use to try out APIs from other services.
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Hello,
I could not get my GIT repositories list until I updated the content of the variable api_url_base in the github_list_repos.py script.
The content of variable api_url_base is incomplete and is causing HTTP 401. The variable must have the /users path component in it as follows:
api_url_base = 'https://api.github.com/users/'
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'User-Agent': 'Python Student',
'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json'}
Salute!
Hi… how to get API token for this site
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