API Integration in Python APIs (Application Programming Interface) can be an incredible tool for developers and applications. Internal APIs can help keep features, servers, and data modular so teams can iterate on disparate services without breaking everything. External APIs can provide data and services that are either unavailable to your …
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How To Scrape Hashtags with Twitter API using Python
Twitter is a treasure trove of information. It is incredible how, despite the strict constraints on content length, people have embraced it and forged meaningful conversations with celebrities and strangers. However, if you decide to put Twitter to some smart use, it opens up more opportunities. All thanks to the Advanced Twitter search …
How to use Google Vision API with Python
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has many uses in the world today. Especially as we continue transitioning our communications from paper to digital forms. One common request for this technology is to solve captchas. Appropriate use for this is to automate the management of an account someone has online. For example, a seller wants to automate …
How To Use the eBay API with Python to Chart Product Prices
If you are an online shopaholic, then price comparison is always on top of your mind. But the manual process of doing this exercise is so tedious. You browse through multiple product listings across websites and keep eyeballing the price figures while switching browser tabs. There has to be a better way of doing it. With the help of Price …
Best Premium and Free Web Scraper Python Tools for Developers
With the growing technology trend in businesses, companies regularly require accurate data to make wise and informed business decisions. The Internet has made it possible to find information with simple search steps. However, the information a person or an organization may be looking for is among millions of data stored away in websites and …
How to use the Call of Duty API with Python
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game franchise. Hundreds of millions of people have spent billions of hours playing the games. This is over the last couple of decades. My oldest son Kayin is the resident expert for online games at my house. He had one question when I spoke with him about Call of Duty. It was whether time spent playing …
How to use the Google News API with Python
Google News is a service that we can use to take a pulse of a popular topic. Currently, there is a presidential election happening in the United States. With this event, we have an opportunity for news data analysis. In the realm of marketing, there is a concept of Effective Frequency. This refers to how many times you need to expose people to a …
How to use the Google Play Store API to Search App Details
Modern mobile phones are replacing many different devices and services. And the bigger part of their capabilities is hidden in the applications as developers are looking for the easiest and most secure ways of interacting with users. These factors have justified the creation of unique application storage: Google Play for Android and App Store for …
How To Build a Text to Speech Service with Python Flask Framework (Speech Recognition)
Do you use voice prompts on your application? If yes, then it is good to have a library of pre-recorded audio files for the prompts. However, if the prompts are not pre-decided, you have to generate them on the fly. With the help of a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API, you can instantly generate audio clips or the audio file of text messages. It is a …
How to build a Weather app with Python and Django
Introduction In this tutorial, we will build a simple weather web application using Python and Django. It will show current weather conditions in a certain city. We will also use ClimaCell Weather API to get weather data for our application. How to obtain access to the ClimaCell API. To obtain access to the ClimaCell API, you first need to sign …
How to Create a Vin Decoder App
All vehicles being sold in the United States of America are required to have an identification code known as VIN (vehicle identification number). VINs were first used in 1954. VINs are uniformly structured and contain important information about the vehicle. Since 1981, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been using a …
How to use an API to get Amazon Product Reviews
If you are a seller on Amazon, then having good reviews about your product is vital. Amazon's product review data gives you a peek into the minds of your customers. But how do you tap into the data effectively? Thankfully, we have a few APIs hosted here at RapidAPI, which can help you. The Amazon Product/Reviews/Keywords API is a complete …
Top 15 Python REST API Frameworks in 2022
Python has emerged as one of the most popular programming languages over the last two decades. Part of the reason for this is its focus on readability and the ease of learning. Over the years, Python has found acceptance in many niche domains, such as automation & utility programs. However, most importantly, it has found enormous favor in the …
How to use the Instagram API with Python
Instagram is a great way to share images and short videos with your friends. But it is designed for use on a phone. How can we capture Instagram feeds and put them on our website? If Python is not your preference you can read about how to use the Instagram API using PHP and Node.js. But if Python is your jam, follow along and you can learn …