Practice Example With Requests + Beautifulsoup (4.2) - Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs

Practise this section

9 questions

Flashcard drill
3 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
Exercise
6 questions · about 4 min · pass mark 70%. Hints available.
Sign up to start the exercise
Quiz
3 questions · about 2 min · pass mark 70%. Hints available.
Sign up to start the quiz

6 sample questions

Question 1.
What does the requests library in Python do?
Show hintHide hint
Think about how we interact with web services.
Question 2.
What is JSON?
Show hintHide hint
It's commonly used in APIs.
3Question 3.
What method is commonly used to retrieve data from an API?
- GET
- POST
- DELETE
Show hintHide hint
Remember the basic HTTP methods.
4Question 4.
True or False: BeautifulSoup can only parse JSON.
- True
- False
Show hintHide hint
Think about the different formats BeautifulSoup can handle.
Question 5.
Create a Python function that accepts a URL and returns all titles (h1 tags) from that webpage.
Show hintHide hint
You will need both requests and BeautifulSoup to achieve this.
Question 6.
Using the requests library, show how you would handle timeouts when making a request.
Show hintHide hint
Think about proper error handling when you make requests.

5 more questions in this section. Enroll free to practise them all.