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== Lecture Outline ==
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#** the ability to understand (i.e., parse) JSON data that APIs usually give us
# Review material from last session
#* variables
#* printing▼
#* if statements▼
#* lists
#* dictionaries
▲#* if statements
#* for loops
▲#* printing
#* modules
# New programming concepts:
#* urllib2 and urlopen
#* interpolate variables into a string using % and %()s
#* open files and write to them
# [http://placekitten.com/ placekitten.com]
#* API that takes specially crafted URLs and gives appropriately sized picture of kittens
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#* Example file at http://mako.cc/cdsw.json
#* download it and parse it
# Other APIs
#* every API is different, so read the documentation!
#* for popular APIs, there are python modules that help you make requests and parse json!
#* rate limiting
#* authenticaiton
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