{"id":41929,"date":"2026-07-31T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/trying-to-learn-how-to-use-api-to-extract-data-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:27:26","slug":"trying-to-learn-how-to-use-api-to-extract-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/trying-to-learn-how-to-use-api-to-extract-data-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Learn How To Use API To Extract Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hello! I&#8217;m a complete newbie in Data Science and I&#8217;m trying to learn how to get data from an API. I understand an API could be public or could require authentication.<\/p>\n<p>I worked with CVS files and I wanted to experience or practice getting data from APIs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting familiar with Python so I was wondering if you could help me with the following issues:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Trying to understand and practice the different methods you can use API to request data (I am not sure if it has to be from a Dataset formar or can it be any kind of format) with Python<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>What are some good options to get APIs to work on data Science<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>I am not even close to get to a point where I am able to do Reproducible projects\/models but I do wonder how including an API (understanding that it is some kind of &#8220;personal Key&#8221;) to share my code and people to be able to use it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hope I made sense of what my doubts are and I apologize in advance if I seem confused about some terms (I do think I am).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/MyNameCouldBeMarion\"> \/u\/MyNameCouldBeMarion <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1vbm60v\/trying_to_learn_how_to_use_api_to_extract_data\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1vbm60v\/trying_to_learn_how_to_use_api_to_extract_data\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41929 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41929' data-nonce='3d20ae4053' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41929 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41929 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I&#8217;m a complete newbie in Data Science and I&#8217;m trying to learn how to get data&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}