Interactive API explorers in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to open the API explorer URL in a browser.

Rest API

import webbrowser

webbrowser.[1]('https://api.example.com/explorer')

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Aclose

Bwrite

Cread

Dopen

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'close' instead of 'open' will not open the browser.

The open function from the webbrowser module opens a URL in the default browser.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to send a GET request to the API explorer endpoint.

Rest API

import requests

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

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Apost

Bget

Cdelete

Dput

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'post' sends data instead of retrieving it.

The get method sends a GET request to retrieve data from the API.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to parse JSON response from the API explorer.

Rest API

import requests

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

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Ajson

Btext

Ccontent

Dhtml

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'text' returns raw string, not parsed JSON.

The json() method parses the response content as JSON.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a function that fetches and returns JSON data from the API explorer.

Rest API

import requests

def fetch_data(url):
    response = requests.[1](url)
    return response.[2]()

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Aget

Bpost

Cjson

Dtext

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'post' instead of 'get' will send data, not retrieve.

The function uses get to request data and json() to parse it.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to build a function that sends a POST request with JSON data to the API explorer and returns the JSON response.

Rest API

import requests

def post_data(url, payload):
    response = requests.[1](url, json=[2])
    return response.[3]()

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Aget

Bpost

Cjson

Dpayload

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'get' instead of 'post' will not send data.

The function uses post to send data, passes the payload as JSON, and parses the response JSON.