APIs and REST with Python

Overview

This course will teach the fundamentals of REST, and how to consume a REST API with Python.

What you’ll need

• Laptop and headphones and microphone
• Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge
• GitHub Codespaces
• Postman (www.postman.com)

Course topics

• Introduction to REST APIs with Postman - a crash-course
  • Introduction to Postman
  • JSON and XML
  • Introduction to JSON
  • Introduction to HTTP Status Codes
  • Introduction to HTTP Methods
• What is REST?
  • Use Postman to Create, Read, Update and Delete records
• Build a simple Python program that Consumes an API
  • Using pip, we’ll install the requests library
  • Consume a simple API using Requests
• Consuming the data
  • Mapping a JSON response to
    • A Dictionary
    • A Pandas DataFrame
    • Python Objects
• Creating an API using Flask
• Building a Serverless API using Visual Studio Code and Azure Functions