Working with APIs in Python [For Your Data Science Project]

We’re going to be working with the Youtube API to collect video statistics from my channel using the requests python library to make an API call and save it as a pandas dataframe. Working with APIs is a necessary skillset for all data scientists and should be incorporated into your data science projects. I talk about the one data science project you’ll ever need in this video https://bit.ly/3rEt6WG so we’ll start with the first step and learn how to work with APIs in python to collect our data.

The python notebook and links to resources are located in this Github repo: https://github.com/Strata-Scratch/api-youtube/blob/main/README.md

Link to the video referred to in the Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Af2FcgamA

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Timeline:

Intro: (0:00)
Coding on Google Colab: (2:00)
Testing with the Requests Library: (4:16)
Working with the YouTube API: (6:32)
Response from Making API Call: (11:00)
Data is in the 'items' Key: (12:22)
Parsing through the Data: (12:57)
Creating the Loop: (16:17)
Making a Second API Call: (18:30)
Saving to a Pandas DataFrame: (20:31)
Implementing Good Software Engineering Fundamentals: (22:40)
Conclusion: (27:03)

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