APIs With Python

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Question 1

What does the requests.get() function do in Python?

  • Updates data on the server

  • Retrieves data from a URL

  • Deletes data on the server

  • Uploads files

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Question 2

What will this code return if the request is successful?

Python 
import requests
response = requests.get("https://api.github.com")
print(response.status_code)


  • 404

  • 500

  • 200

  • None

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Question 3

Which of these methods is used to send data to a server in a request body?

  • GET

  • POST

  • DELETE

  • HEAD

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Question 4

What does the response.json() method return in Python’s requests module?

  • The raw string of the response

  • A dictionary from the JSON response

  • An XML document

  • List of headers

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Question 5

What will happen if you access a URL with an invalid SSL certificate using requests without disabling verification?

  • It returns status code 200

  • It raises an SSLError

  • It auto-validates the SSL

  • It retries the request

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Question 6

How can you disable SSL verification in Python requests?

  • verify=False in get() method

  • Remove headers

  • Use http instead of https

  • Use json=False

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Question 7

Which requests method can be used to modify part of a resource on a server?

  • PATCH

  • PUT

  • DELETE

  • GET

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Question 8

What is the purpose of a Session object in the requests module?

  • To upload files

  • To manage browser sessions

  • To persist cookies and connection pooling

  • To track request history

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Question 9

In the following code, what does params do?

Python 
params = {
    "country": "us",
    "apiKey": API_KEY,
}
response = requests.get(url, params=params)


  • It adds authentication headers

  • It sets up a timeout

  • It adds query parameters to the URL

  • It disables SSL

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Question 10

What does this line do in a Python script using the NewsAPI?

Python 
articles = response.json().get('articles', [])


  • Loads XML content

  • Returns all articles in JSON data

  • Returns first image only

  • Returns 404 if articles not found

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