Hello.
I am doing Lab 1 - Building the First Data Pipeline.
When I am in Developer Center / APIs / Books API | Open Library, I do not see how to generate a API request.
This is what I see:
Thank you for your answer.
Agnes
Thank you for your answer.
Agnes
I also clicked on “Book Search API”, and this is what I see:
There is nothing suggesting where to start an API search.
Hello @Agnese
Open library is a REST API, the documents of which you can see through the provided links such as this. If you are looking for python code samples, they won’t be available there. That’s because the REST API only provides the endpoints, and we can make requests to these endpoints using any programming language we want. If you scroll further down, you can see the following as an example.
For instance, these samples are providing the template for works endpoint. You can simply copy the URL, and make a python request like the following.
import requests
response = requests.get("https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45804W.json")
This doesn’t need to be included in the documents, since it is the standard way for making requests using python, regardless of the REST API we are making the requests to.
Hope this helps.