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So we're now finally ready to move on to the last step,

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which is posting a value to our graph.

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And this is going to create a new pixel on our habit graph.

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So I want you to pull up the relevant piece of documentation

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which is going to be posting a pixel.

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And I want you to take a look at the description and the header and the body,

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and see if you can complete the step as a challenge.

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Notice that, firstly, the endpoint is again different and everything that's

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inside

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these angle brackets need to be replaced with your actual values.

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So your actual username and your actual graph ID. In addition,

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this is again going to be a post request and it requires the authentication in

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the request header. Finally,

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you have to provide the date in the format of four characters for the year,

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two characters for the month and two characters for the day.

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So today would be 2020

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0724 in this format.

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And then you have to provide the quantity that you want to add to today's pixel.

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So if you cycled 10.5 kilometers, then it would be 10.5.

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If you originally set up your graph to track integers, for example,

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the number of pages you read in a book, then that would be the number.

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So I want you to pause the video and see if you can complete this step as a

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challenge. Have a go now.

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All right. So the first thing we're going to do is to update our end point.

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I'm gonna comment out this previous step because we've already created our graph

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and we're now going to move on to our pixel creation.

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So that's what I'm going to call my endpoint.

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Now, this pixel creation endpoint is obviously not what we need.

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We need to format this URL so that we add in the first part

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which is the pixela endpoint which goes up to /users.

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So that's all of this part.

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So we can use an f-string and add the pixel endpoint.

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And then we're going to replace the /username with our own

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username, and then it's /graphs

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and we have to replace this graph ID as well. And in my case,

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the graph ID is simply just graph1.

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So it might make sense to create a constant for that as well,

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right?

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So that we can use it at the very end of this endpoint.

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So now that we've created our end point,

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the next step is to create the request body.

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So passing over the date and the quantity.

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So I'm going to create the pixel_data,

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and this is going to first have the date,

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but it has to be formatted in the way they specified.

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So four characters for the year, which is 2020,

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and then two characters for the month,

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07, and then two characters for the day.

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But notice here that they specify the data type for the date has to be a string.

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So we can't simply leave it as a number.

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So we have to add some quotation marks around it.

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And then finally we can add the actual data

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which is going to go under the key quantity

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and this is also going to be a string

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and this is the quantity that we're going to register in the pixel

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and that's going to determine the intensity of the actual pixel.

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So in my case, I did actually go for a quick ride today. Um,

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and my stats were not fantastic, but, um,

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I'm still gonna log it.

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So that was 9.74 kilometers that I cycled.

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So that's what my quantity is going to be, 9.74. And again,

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this is a string because that's what the documentation tells us.

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And remember that when you set up your graph,

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if you set up the data type to receive floats,

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then you can actually give it a floating-point number. If you set it up as int,

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then you have to give it a whole number.

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Now that we've got our data and our endpoint,

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then we're finally ready to create our requests. So you request.posts.

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And again,

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our URL is going to be this new pixel creation endpoint.

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Our JSON that we're going to pass over is our pixel_data,

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and finally,

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we're going to reuse the headers that we had from previously,

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because it still contains the same token that we need to authenticate ourselves.

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So let's see what is the response that we get back.

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So I'm going to print out the response.text and hopefully if everything went

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well, then we should get the success message.

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But now is the most exciting part.

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You can go back to our cycling graph and then hit refresh,

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and we should see all brand new pixel show up in our graph right there.

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And it tells us today we cycled 9.74 kilometers.

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One thing you might be wondering is, well,

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how can we get this date to be automated?

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Because I don't want to have to check the date and type it in.

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We can use the date time module, right? So in the next lesson,

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I'm going to show you how you can use a method called strftime in order to

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format the date time that you get from Python into any format that you require.

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