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All right.

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So the first thing we need to do that we learnt in order to work with APIs is to

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import the requests module.

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And once we've imported that,

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we need to get a response from the URL that we saw over here.

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As I mentioned, the end point is everything that's before the question mark.

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So let's put that in as the URL for our get request.

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And then in addition, we need to add some parameters.

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So let's make our parameters a Python dictionary,

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and the key must match the key that's shown here

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and the value has to match the value that's given here as well.

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So we've got two keys; amount and type.

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So these are both going to be strings,

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but the values can be numbers if it is appropriate.

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So amount sets the number of questions we want back from the API,

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and then the type sets the type of questions that we want. So in our case,

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we want the boolean data type that matches this exact entry.

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So that way we get back true-false questions.

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Now that we've done that we can use this parameters dictionary as the

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params,

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and then we want our response to raise an exception if there were any errors.

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And then we're going to get our response to give us the data using the JSON

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method. If this is our data,

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let's go ahead and print it and see what it looks like.

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We can run this particular file, data.py, by right-clicking and just saying

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run data. And once it's done, you can see we printed out the data

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and the part that we're interested in is the value of this key results,

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because it contains the list of questions.

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That's the only part we're interested in. So in order to tap into that,

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we have to add a set of square brackets and then pass in the key

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which is called results. So let's put that as the key.

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And now we're fetching all of the items that are the results from this data

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object that we get back. So now, if I run this again, you can see

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we now have a list of question objects

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which each contains a dictionary

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and it looks now pretty much identical to this structure that we had before.

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Now, instead of printing this, we can save it as the question_data.

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So now this question_data and has replaced this question_data,

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and as I mentioned,

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we can run our main.py and it should now work just as it did before.

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But this time it's going to use questions that came from our API.

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The cold war ended with Joseph Stalin's death, true or false.

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I think that's actually false. But notice how

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when we get the data back from the API,

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it's formatted in such a way that we've got certain symbols that have been

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encoded using this particular format

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because all of this is meant to represent a single apostrophe. In the next

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lesson,

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I'm going to show you how we can format the text that we get back to turn this

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encoding into the actual characters

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that it should be. For all of that and more, I'll see you on the next lesson.