Search parameter in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to add a search parameter to the API endpoint URL.

Rest API

url = "https://api.example.com/items?[1]=book"

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Aquery

Bfilter

Csort

Dsearch

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Common Mistakes

Using 'filter' or 'query' which may not be recognized by this API.

The correct search parameter key is search to filter items by keyword.

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medium

Complete the code to extract the search parameter value from the URL query string.

Rest API

search_term = request.args.get('[1]')

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Asearch

Bfilter

Cquery

Dterm

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Common Mistakes

Using a different parameter name that does not match the URL.

The parameter name to get the search term is search.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly check if the search parameter exists.

Rest API

if '[1]' in request.args:

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Aquery

Bterm

Csearch

Dfilter

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Common Mistakes

Checking for wrong parameter names like 'term' or 'filter'.

The correct key to check in request.args is search.

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hard

Fill both blanks to build a URL with search and sort parameters.

Rest API

url = f"https://api.example.com/items?[1]=phone&[2]=asc"

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Asearch

Bfilter

Csort

Dorder

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Common Mistakes

Using 'filter' instead of 'search' or 'order' instead of 'sort'.

The first parameter is search for the keyword, and the second is sort for sorting order.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a dictionary comprehension filtering items by search term length and sorting by price.

Rest API

filtered = {item['name']: item['price'] for item in items if len(item['name']) [1] [2] and item['price'] [3] 100}

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A>

B3

C<=

D5

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong comparison operators or values that don't filter correctly.

The comprehension filters items with names longer than 3 characters and prices less than or equal to 100.