First API request and response in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to make a GET request to the API endpoint.

Rest API

response = requests.[1]('https://api.example.com/data')

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Aget

Bput

Cdelete

Dpost

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'post' instead of 'get' when only retrieving data.

Using 'put' or 'delete' which are for updating or deleting data.

The get method sends a GET request to the specified URL to retrieve data.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to print the status code of the API response.

Rest API

print(response.[1])

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Acontent

Btext

Cjson

Dstatus_code

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'text' or 'content' which contain the response body, not the status code.

Using 'json' which parses the response body, not the status code.

The status_code attribute shows the HTTP status code returned by the API.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to parse the JSON response correctly.

Rest API

data = response.[1]()

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Atext

Bcontent

Cjson

Dstatus_code

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'text' or 'content' which return raw strings or bytes.

Using 'status_code' which is an integer, not the response body.

The json() method parses the response body as JSON and returns a Python dictionary.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to check if the response status code is 200 and print success.

Rest API

if response.[1] == [2]:
    print('Success!')

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Astatus_code

Btext

C200

Djson

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Comparing the response text to '200' instead of the status code.

Using 'json' or 'text' instead of 'status_code' for the check.

Check if response.status_code equals 200 which means the request was successful.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to extract the 'name' field from the JSON response and print it.

Rest API

data = response.[1]()
name = data[[2]]
print(name)

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Ajson

B'name'

C'id'

Dtext

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'text' instead of 'json' to parse the response.

Accessing the wrong key like 'id' instead of 'name'.

Use json() to parse the response, then access the 'name' key to get the value.