1.Web API

Web API是网站的一部分，用于与使用非常具体的URL请求特定信息的程序交互，这种请求称为API调用。

请求的数据将以易于处理的格式（如JSON或CSV）返回，依赖于外部数据的大多数程序都依赖于API调用，如集成社交媒体网站的应用程序。

在浏览器中输入如下地址并按回车：

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:python&sort=stars

下面显示了响应的前几行：

{  "total_count": 2639356,  "incomplete_results": false,  "items": [    {      "id": 21289110,      "name": "awesome-python",      "full_name": "vinta/awesome-python",      --snip--

可知GitHub共有2639356个Python项目，"incomplete_results"的值为false,据此我们知道请求是成功的。

 

2.处理API响应&概述最受欢迎仓库

import requestsurl='https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:python&sort=stars'r=requests.get(url)print("Status code:",r.status_code)response_dict=r.json()print("Total repositories:",response_dict['total_count'])repo_dicts=response_dict['items']print("Repositories returned:",len(repo_dicts))print("Selected information about each repository:")for repo_dict in repo_dicts:    print('\nName:',repo_dict['name'])    print('Owner:',repo_dict['owner']['login'])    print('Stars:',repo_dict['stargazers_count'])    print('Repository:',repo_dict['html_url'])    print('Created:',repo_dict['created_at'])    print('Description:',repo_dict['description'])

状态码200表示请求成功，循环调用每个仓库的特定信息，以便能够在可视化中包含这些信息。

 

3.监视API的速率限制

https://api.github.com/rate_limit

可知极限为执行10个请求，我们还可以执行8个请求，如果获得API密钥后，配额将高得多。

 

4.可视化呈现GitHub上Python项目受欢迎程度

import requestsimport pygalfrom pygal.style import LightColorizedStyle as LCS,LightenStyle as LSurl='https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:python&sort=stars'r=requests.get(url)print("Status code:",r.status_code)response_dict=r.json()print("Total repositories:",response_dict['total_count'])repo_dicts=response_dict['items']names,stars=[],[]for repo_dict in repo_dicts:    names.append(repo_dict['name'])    stars.append(repo_dict['stargazers_count'])    my_style=LS('#333366',base_style=LCS)chart=pygal.Bar(style=my_style,x_label_rotation=45,show_legend=False)chart.title='Most-Starred Python Projects on GitHub'chart.x_labels=nameschart.add('',stars)chart.render_to_file('python_repos.svg')

这里传递了另外两个样式实参：让标签绕x轴旋转45度，并隐藏了图例（标深蓝色的小方块）

 

5.改进Pygal图表

（1）创建一个Pygal类Config的实例，并将其命名为my_config，通过修改其属性，可定制图表的外观。在创建Bar实例时，将my_config作为第一个实参，从而通过一个实参传递所有的配置设置。

（2）创建自定义工具提示（鼠标指向条形将显示它表示的信息），创建一个字典plot_dict，使用键'value'存储了星数，使用键‘label’存储了项目描述，使用键‘xlink’来关联相应页面的链接。

import requestsimport pygalfrom pygal.style import LightColorizedStyle as LCS,LightenStyle as LSurl='https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:python&sort=stars'r=requests.get(url)print("Status code:",r.status_code)response_dict=r.json()print("Total repositories:",response_dict['total_count'])repo_dicts=response_dict['items']names,plot_dicts=[],[]for repo_dict in repo_dicts:    names.append(repo_dict['name'])    plot_dict={        'value':repo_dict['stargazers_count'],        'label':str(repo_dict['description']),        'xlink':repo_dict['html_url'],        }    plot_dicts.append(plot_dict)    my_style=LS('#333366',base_style=LCS)my_config=pygal.Config()my_config.x_label_rotation=45my_config.show_legend=Falsemy_config.title_font_size=24my_config.label_font_size=14my_config.major_label_font=18my_config.truncate_label=15my_config.show_y_guides=Falsemy_config.width=1000chart=pygal.Bar(my_config,style=my_style)chart.title='Most-Starred Python Projects on GitHub'chart.x_labels=nameschart.add('',plot_dicts)chart.render_to_file('python_repos.svg')

 

6.Hacker News API

url链接失效，但通过这段代码可以窥见使用任何API来访问和分析信息的一般流程：

import requestsfrom operator import itemgetter# Make an API call, and store the response.url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json'r = requests.get(url)print("Status code:", r.status_code)# Process information about each submission.submission_ids = r.json()submission_dicts = []for submission_id in submission_ids[:30]:    # Make a separate API call for each submission.    url = ('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/' +            str(submission_id) + '.json')    submission_r = requests.get(url)    print(submission_r.status_code)    response_dict = submission_r.json()        submission_dict = {        'title': response_dict['title'],        'link': 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=' + str(submission_id),        'comments': response_dict.get('descendants', 0)        }    submission_dicts.append(submission_dict)    submission_dicts = sorted(submission_dicts, key=itemgetter('comments'),                            reverse=True)for submission_dict in submission_dicts:    print("\nTitle:", submission_dict['title'])    print("Discussion link:", submission_dict['link'])    print("Comments:", submission_dict['comments'])