Chapter 7. Web APIs
Data scientists and data engineers get data from a variety of different sources. Often, data might come as CSV files or database dumps. Sometimes, we have to obtain the data through a web API.
An individual or organization sets up a web API to distribute data to programs over the Internet (or an internal network). Unlike websites, where the data is intended to be consumed by a web browser and shown to the user, the data provided by a web API is agnostic to the type of program querying it. Web servers serving HTML and web servers backing an API are queried in essentially the same way: through HTTP requests.
We have already seen an example of a web API in Chapter 4, Parallel Collections and Futures, where we queried the "Markit ...
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