JSON Placeholder API

✅ Example: Fetch Data from a Public API (JSONPlaceholder)

We'll use the free JSONPlaceholder API for demonstration.

import requests

# Define the API endpoint
url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts"

# Make a GET request
response = requests.get(url)

# Check if the request was successful
if response.status_code == 200:
    # Parse the JSON data
    data = response.json()

    # Print the first 3 posts
    for post in data[:3]:
        print(f"ID: {post['id']}")
        print(f"Title: {post['title']}")
        print(f"Body: {post['body']}\n")
else:
    print(f"Failed to fetch data. Status code: {response.status_code}")

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🧠 Key Points

• requests.get(url): Sends a GET request.

• response.json(): Converts JSON response to a Python dictionary/list.

• Always check response.status_code to ensure the request was successful (200 OK).

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🔁 Bonus: Fetch with Parameters (e.g., Get post with ID = 1)

response = requests.get("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", params={'id': 1})
print(response.json())