API Walkthrough

Setting Up Environment

1. Visit https://www.python.org/downloads/ and download version 3.8.5
2. Make sure you have pip3 installed: $ pip --version
3. You should see something like: pip 20.2.3 from c:\python\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.8)
4. If you are out of date (not version 20.2.3), you can run: $ pip install --upgrade pip
5. Install the python library for web requests: $ pip install requests
6. Verify your installation by running

>>> import requests
#### If the library is not found, try reinstalling
>>> quit()

Connecting to the API

(For more public APIs, take a look at https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis)

1. Navigate to your project folder and clone the GitHub repository for this project:

$ cd ~/projects
$ git clone https://github.com/letourneau-ACM/api

2. Open the api_demo.py file in IDLE
3. In your browser, visit https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
4. Click on the ‘books’ API link
5. Look up your favorite book and GET the data using the API