How to pull information from api?

Question

Python

I was looking for a solution to my problem on the Internet, I found a link to habr Why does it not display by id with Beautiful Soup?
There, user Ranc58 gave an example, and wrote: "..As a result, you don't need to parse anything, just pull information from the API"

Question: how to pull information from the API?

There is such a url https://minfin.com.ua/api/currency/ratelist/?curre...
You need to extract information about the USD rate from it (by the sell parameter), so that you can execute print('smth') and get dollar exchange rate in one line

Answer 1

There is a regular json.
Example:

import json
import requests

response = requests.get('https://minfin.com.ua/api/currency/ratelist/?currency1=usd&currency2=uah&converter_type=midbank')
json_data = json.loads(response.text)
sell = json_data['data']['rates']['sell']
for key in sell:
  print(key, '->', sell[key])

Result

USD -> 27.5000
UAH -> 1
RUB -> 0.3600
EUR -> 32.0000
PLN -> 6.8000
GBP -> 34.0000
CZK -> 1.0000
CNY -> 3.0000
BYN -> 12.5000
KZT -> 0

You can use the jsonviewer.stack.hu service to view the json structure.

Answer 2

gygy
this is not that API
with such an API no problems at all