How to Access Web APIs using Python Requests and JSON

Опубликовано: 24 Март 2026
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In this video I'll show you how to quickly and easily access web apis and convert the resulting JSON data into a Python dictionary, pull the relevant information out, and print it. We'll be using TV Maze to get information about various TV shows.

Links:
TV Maze API Info: https://www.tvmaze.com/api
JSON: https://www.json.org/json-en.html

Code:

import requests
import json
import pprint

url = "http://api.tvmaze.com/singlesearch/shows"
show = input("Please input a show name. ")
params = {"q":show}

response = requests.get(url, params)

if response.status_code == 200:
data = json.loads(response.text)
pprint.pprint(data)

name = data['name']
premiered = data['premiered']
summary = data['summary']

print(f"{name} premiered on {premiered}.")
print(summary)

else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")

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