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#** way to ask for data (almost always a URL)
#** way to get data back (almost always in a format called JSON)
#** every API is different, and documented
#* to use APIs to build a dataset we will need:
#** all our tools from last session: variables, etc
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#* API that takes specially crafted URLs and gives appropriately sized picture of kittens
#* example of placekitten in browser
#** visit the API documentation
#** kittens of different sizes
#** kittens in greyscale or color
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#* can reflect more complicated data structures
#* Example file at http://mako.cc/cdsw.json
#* opendownload a fileit and write toparse it
# Wikipedia API
#* explain MediaWiki, exists on other wikis
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