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Notes

RapidAPI, you will select Python Requests type of code to work with your Notebook
The url is the endpoint to which the API is directed
The headers is a dictionary data structure to send special messaging to the endpoint
The requests.request() python function is used to send a request and retrieve their responses
The response variable receives result of of the request in JSON text
Replace key with personal key to access the API
Remember to subscribe to the API to access

My Process

I explored the RapidAPI a ton, and I played around with many of the APIs. I found a ton of practical ones, as well as fun ones, and I have our group's final project in mind when I search through the APIs. There are a lot that I found that we could potentially utilize, such as a gratitude message generator, a mood tracker, and mental health stats. Those are some practical ones, but this fun one below was my favorite that I tried out.

Covid19 RapidAPI Example

"""
Requests is a HTTP library for the Python programming language. 
The goal of the project is to make HTTP requests simpler and more human-friendly. 
"""
import requests

"""
RapidAPI is the world's largest API Marketplace. 
Developers use Rapid API to discover and connect to thousands of APIs. 
"""
url = "https://corona-virus-world-and-india-data.p.rapidapi.com/api"
headers = {
    'x-rapidapi-key': "dec069b877msh0d9d0827664078cp1a18fajsn2afac35ae063",
    'x-rapidapi-host': "corona-virus-world-and-india-data.p.rapidapi.com"
}

# Request Covid Data
response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
# print(response.text)  # uncomment this line to see raw data

# This code looks for "world data"
print("World Totals")
world = response.json().get('world_total')  # turn response to json() so we can extract "world_total"
for key, value in world.items():  # this finds key, value pairs in country
    print(key, value)

print()

# This code looks for USA in "countries_stats"
print("Country Totals")
countries = response.json().get('countries_stat')
for country in countries:  # countries is a list
    if country["country_name"] == "USA":  # this filters for USA
        for key, value in country.items():  # this finds key, value pairs in country
            print(key, value)

World Totals
total_cases 509,268,964
new_cases 204,268
total_deaths 6,242,509
new_deaths 630
total_recovered 461,827,849
active_cases 41,198,606
serious_critical 42,510
total_cases_per_1m_population 65,334
deaths_per_1m_population 800.9
statistic_taken_at 2022-04-24 11:18:01

Country Totals
country_name USA
cases 82,649,779
deaths 1,018,316
region 
total_recovered 80,434,925
new_deaths 0
new_cases 0
serious_critical 1,465
active_cases 1,196,538
total_cases_per_1m_population 247,080
deaths_per_1m_population 3,044
total_tests 1,000,275,726
tests_per_1m_population 2,990,303

Love Calculator API

import requests

url = "https://love-calculator.p.rapidapi.com/getPercentage"

querystring = {"sname":"Annika Liao","fname":"Alex Turner"}

headers = {
	"X-RapidAPI-Key": "26fd9549c8msh64e7e2f5ac3301fp18259djsn17ca48c66a6a",
	"X-RapidAPI-Host": "love-calculator.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.text)

{"fname":"Alex Turner","sname":"Annika Liao","percentage":"99","result":"Congratulations! Good choice"}