Introduction to Handling APIs

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) allow applications to communicate with each other. Python’s requests library makes it simple to interact with APIs by sending HTTP requests and handling responses.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the requests library to send API requests and process responses.

Installing requests

To install the requests library, use the following command in your terminal:

pip install requests

Once installed, you can import it in your Python scripts:

# Importing requests
import requests

print("Requests library imported successfully")