This repository contains a detailed Jupyter notebook (+pdf) that demonstrate retrieving data from a REST API service using the Python Requests library. Data from the United States National Park Service Data API are used as an example dataset.
This demo was presented at the Biodiversity_Next conference in Leiden, Netherlands on 21 October 2019.
python-explore-apis.ipynb
python-explore-apis.pdf
These files contain a detailed description of the process for reading data from website APIs using Requests.
If there are problems rendering the Jupyter Notebook via GitHub, it can be viewed here via nbviewer: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/amdevine/cbb-python-requests/blob/master/python-explore-apis.ipynb