Python: Working with REST and Web Data

1h 39mIntermediate2018-08-07

Authors

Joe Marini

Senior Developer Advocate at Google, Developer

Course details

Python is a powerful tool for working with data stored on web servers. In this course, Joe Marini demonstrates how to use Python to send, retrieve, and deliver web-based data to users. Learn how XML and JSON are used to store and exchange data, see how to use Python to retrieve XML and JSON data over the web, and find out how to parse that data using a range of different Python modules and features. Joe also shows how to fetch data from URLs and retrieve and send data via HTTP using the Python Requests library.

Learning objectives
Overview of XML and JSON
Retrieving and sending data over the internet
Handling errors
Using the Requests library to exchange data
Working with JSON data
Parsing XML data
XML DOM parsing

Skills covered

PythonProgramming LanguagesOpen SourceSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Looking at Python, XML, JSON, and the web
02 - What you should know

1. Overview

03 - Working with internet data
04 - Quick overview of XML
05 - Quick overview of JSON
06 - Internet data Python modules
07 - Using httpbin.org

2. Accessing the Internet

08 - Introducing urllib
09 - Retrieving data
10 - Sending data with urllib
11 - Handling errors
12 - Drawbacks of urllib

3. Using the Requests Library

13 - Overview of the Requests library
14 - Retrieve and send data
15 - Handling errors
16 - Using authentication

4. Working with JSON

17 - The Python JSON module
18 - Parsing and serializing JSON
19 - JSON exception handling
20 - Requests and JSON

5. Simple XML Parsing

21 - XML parsing models
22 - The SAX API
23 - Using the xml.sax module

6. XML DOM Parsing

24 - The XML DOM
25 - Using xml.dom.minidom
26 - The ElementTree API
27 - Using lxml

Conclusion

28 - Next steps