At this point, you’re trying to learn only three things: Wrappers can be great when you want to get something done quickly, but having a solid understanding of what the APIs themselves can do will help you decide if the wrappers make sense for your goals.įirst, look at the DigitalOcean API Introduction at and try to understand only the basics about how to send a request, and what to expect in the response. This guide doesn’t use any wrappers because they hide much of the inner workings of the APIs, and often don’t expose everything the API can do. An API wrapper is code that you install on your system to make the APIs easier to use in your chosen programming language. To find APIs for other services, search for the name of the site and “API” - not all services promote them on their front pages. The DigitalOcean API documentation starts at. The first step in using a new API is to find the documentation, and get your bearings. The first few paragraphs in How To Use the DigitalOcean API v2 show how to do this. Notepad++ for Windows, BBEdit for macOS, and Sublime Text or Atom for any platform are all good choices. If you don’t already have a favorite, choose one with syntax highlighting.
You can follow How To Install and Set Up a Local Programming Environment for Python 3 to configure everything you need. A local development environment for Python 3.Prerequisitesīefore you begin this guide you’ll need the following: When you’re finished, you’ll understand the concepts common across web APIs, and you’ll have a step-by-step process and working code samples that you can use to try out APIs from other services. Then we’ll look at how you can apply what you’ve learned to GitHub’s API. In this guide, you will learn how to use Python with the DigitalOcean API to retrieve information about your DigitalOcean account.
If you’ve worked your way through some tutorials on how to code in Python 3, and you’re comfortable with Python’s syntax, structure, and some built-in functions, you can write Python programs that take advantage of your favorite APIs. A surprising number of web properties offer web-based APIs alongside the more familiar website or mobile app, including Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, and DigitalOcean. Sometimes you can use APIs to do things you just can’t do any other way. You can use APIs to get information from other programs or to automate things you normally do in your web browser. They expose some of a program’s inner workings in a limited way.
An API, or Application Program Interface, enables developers to integrate one app with another.
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