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PyLadies San Francisco

API Workshop

This was made for the PyLadiesSF workshop held on September 26th and 27th.

For installation instructions, check out the install docs.

Hang tight, though! This repo is just the initial code. This will be made into a replicatable workshop.

For now, check out the API tutorial over at newcoder.io.

Goals

Primary:

  • Interacting with a few public APIs
  • A primer to HTTP "verbs"
  • File input & output
  • Writing Python modules, classes, methods and functions

Secondary:

  • Making a simple graph with matplotlib
  • Logging
  • Command-line arguments with Python
  • Configuration parsing
  • What JSON is
  • What OAuth is

What you'll leave with

  • Python code that interacts with:
    • Spotify APIs
    • EchoNest APIs
    • GitHub APIs
  • Two visualizations
    • Bar graph
    • Map
  • Understanding of:
    • How to install Python packages and work with Python virtual environments
    • What an API is
    • How to "chop up data" from an API for your enjoyment

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