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Consuming a REST API with requests

Fetching JSON from a REST API with the requests library, raising for bad status codes, and pulling specific keys out of the response.

we import the module for handling apis

import requests

parse the url to get the response from

response = requests.get(url='http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json')

raising an error in case we dont get the desired response code

response.raise_for_status()

parse the response in json format

data = response.json()

get specific data from the json using keys

longitude = data['iss_position']['longitude']
latitude = data['iss_position']['latitude']

iss_position = (longitude, latitude)
print(iss_position)