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APIs are all around us on the web. Sometimes we can use scraping techniques to interact with them in a meaningful way.
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Now, however, many sites provide
a Web API that shares their data.
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Sometimes, we can use these APIs
to directly access information,
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without having to scrape the data.
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I'd recommend looking to see if
the site you are wanting to scrape
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offers an API for
the information you need.
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It can be a big time saver.
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Let's take a look at how we can get data
from the World Bank, using their API.
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There are many instances
when using an API is great.
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Sometimes, though, scraping results
from an API is useful as well,
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