Working with Simple APIs
In this guided project, you will be introduced to the concept of Application Program Interface (API) ), which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other.
Language
- English
Topic
- Computer Science & Information Technology
Enrollment Count
- 1.57K
Skills You Will Learn
- Python, API
Offered By
- IBM
Estimated Effort
- 25 min
Platform
- SkillsNetwork
Last Update
- January 30, 2025
You will get familiar and practice with two API examples: Random User and Fruitvice APIs. You will learn how to load and extract some information from these APIs. Additionally, you can practice working with any other API of your choice. An example, with guided steps on how to do it, is provided in this project.
- Load and use RandomUser API, using `RandomUser()` Python library
- Load and use Fruitvice API, using `requests` Python library
- Load and use any other, free, open-source API
What You'll Need
This course uses Python and JupyterLabs. Although these skills are recommended prerequisites, no prior experience is required as this Guided Project is designed for complete beginners.
Instructor
Language
- English
Topic
- Computer Science & Information Technology
Enrollment Count
- 1.57K
Skills You Will Learn
- Python, API
Offered By
- IBM
Estimated Effort
- 25 min
Platform
- SkillsNetwork
Last Update
- January 30, 2025
Instructors
Svitlana Kramar
Data Scientist
I’m a passionate data science educator whose goal is to learn by teaching innovative data science tools that can improve our day-to-day tasks and our quality of life. My interests are in Natural Language Processing: text classification, summarization, and generation. Research can take a long time because there are a lot of resources and new opinions posted every day. Having tools to summarize and extract the information can save a lot of time. I hope we can all learn, approve, and apply the data science tools to cut down on the repetitive and tedious tasks, to make more informed decisions in life, to differentiate fake from real, and to open communication spaces to language-diverse or hearing-impaired audiences. The applications are limitless! My personality: I am a foodie and I love cooking and learning different cuisines. I also love travelling and connecting with people by learning a little bit of their language, about their food and music. I hold Data Science and Analytics master’s degree, specializing in Machine Learning, from University of Calgary.
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