How to Pull Data from an API using Python Requests

Technical API how-to without the headache

Cameron Warren
Towards Data Science
9 min readMar 18, 2020

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Automatically retrieving data from APIs is critical.

The thing that I’m asked to do over and over again is automate pulling data from an API. Despite holding the title “Data Scientist” I’m on a small team, so I’m not only responsible for building models, but also pulling data, cleaning it, and pushing and pulling it wherever it needs to go. Many of you are

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