Using Python to Connect to a GraphQL API

Melvynn Fernandez
Towards Data Science
3 min readNov 14, 2019

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Let’s automate and remove the margin for error, trying to get rid of the front end one step at a time.

What exactly is GraphQL?
GraphQL in its simplest terms a query language used for the front end. We send a request and retrieve certain data back. GraphQL is also advanced enough to make changes in the data called mutations. But that requires a whole new article to explain.

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