First things first, let’s introduce you to Requests. What is the Requests Resource? Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python. … [Read more...] about Using the Requests Library in Python
Python On The Web
The Python On The Web category on our site covers all the different ways you can interact with python services on the web. This includes python APIs and web interfaces, scraping web pages and various scripts to pull and gather data from the web.
Scraping websites with Python
What is BeautifulSoup? BeautifulSoup is a third party Python library from Crummy. The library is designed for quick turnaround projects like … [Read more...] about Scraping websites with Python
Python API and JSON
What is an API? An application programming interface (API) is a protocol intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate … [Read more...] about Python API and JSON
Using the YouTube API in Python
Overview In this post we will be looking on how to use the YouTube API in Python. This program will show how we can use the API to retrieve feeds from … [Read more...] about Using the YouTube API in Python
How to use the Vimeo API in Python
Overview In this post we will be looking on how to use the Vimeo API in Python. About the Vimeo API Vimeo offers an API which lets us integrate … [Read more...] about How to use the Vimeo API in Python
Browsing in Python with Mechanize
Browsing with Mechanize The mechanize module in Python is similar to perl WWW:Mechanize. It gives you a browser like object to interact with web … [Read more...] about Browsing in Python with Mechanize
Fetching data from the Internet
What is Urllib2? urllib2 is a Python module for fetching URLs. What can it do? It offers a very simple interface, in the form of the urlopen … [Read more...] about Fetching data from the Internet
Requests In Python
What is Requests The Requests module is a an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python. What can I do with Requests? Requests allow you to send … [Read more...] about Requests In Python
Parse JSON objects in Python
Overview In this post we will explain how you can parse JSON objects in Python. Knowing how to parse JSON objects is useful when you want to access … [Read more...] about Parse JSON objects in Python
What is JSON
What is JSON? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a compact, text based format for computers to exchange data. The official Internet media type for … [Read more...] about What is JSON