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Lecture 6 Demo - NYT API

This demo explains how to call the New York Times API using the Python requests library and parse its JSON data. It also shows how you can store and hide your API keys with a .env file and .gitignore file, respectively.

Requirements

  1. pip install python-dotenv
  2. pip install requests

Setup

  1. Create .env file in your main directory
  2. Add your NYT key from https://developer.nytimes.com/my-apps with the line: export API_KEY='YOUR_KEY'

Run Application

  1. Run command in terminal python3 lect6-demo.py
  2. See output with list of election articles