There’s an amazing amount of data available on the Web. Many web services, like YouTube and GitHub, make their data accessible to third-party applications through an application programming interface (API). One of the most popular ways to build APIs is the REST architecture style. Python provides some great tools not only to get data from REST APIs but also to build your own Python REST APIs.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn:
- What REST architecture is
- How REST APIs provide access to web data
- How to consume data from REST APIs using the
requestslibrary - What steps to take to build a REST API
- What some popular