API Parameters

• This is a way that allows you to give an input when you are making your API request so that you can get different pieces of data back
• Depending on your input in the same way that we've given different inputs into the same function in order to get a different outcome.
• Coming back to our bank analogy, that's kinda similar to going to the bank and instead of just asking them for what are your opening hours, a sort of broad stroke question, you can also pass in a parameter. For example, you could say, well, what time do you close on Monday?
• Some parameters are required and others are optional. Just as we can have optional and required parameters when we create functions, you have the same thing in APIs

https://sunrise-sunset.org/api

import requests
from datatime import datetime

MY_LAT = 24.164810
MY_LONG = 120.674260

parameters = {
    "lat": MY_LAT,
    "lng": MY_LONG,
}

response = requests.get("<https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json>", params=parameters)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
sunrise = data["results"]["sunrise"]
sunset = data["results"]["sunset"]

print(data)
print(sunrise)
print(sunrise.split("T"))
print(sunrise.split("T")[1].split(":"))
print(sunrise.split("T")[1].split(":")[0])

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{'results': {'sunrise': '9:49:32 PM', 'sunset': '9:41:56 AM', 'solar_noon': '3:45:44 AM', 'day_length': '11:52:24', 'civil_twilight_begin': '9:28:00 PM', 'civil_twilight_end': '10:03:28 AM', 'nautical_twilight_begin': '9:01:41 PM', 'nautical_twilight_end': '10:29:47 AM', 'astronomical_twilight_begin': '8:35:23 PM', 'astronomical_twilight_end': '10:56:06 AM'}, 'status': 'OK'}
2021-10-04T21:49:32+00:00
['2021-10-04', '21:49:32+00:00']
['21', '49', '32+00', '00']
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import requests
from datatime import datetime

MY_LAT = 24.164810
MY_LONG = 120.674260

parameters = {
    "lat": MY_LAT,
    "lng": MY_LONG,
}

response = requests.get("<https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json>", params=parameters)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
sunrise = data["results"]["sunrise"].split("T")[1].split(":")[0]
sunset = data["results"]["sunset"].split("T")[1].split(":")[0]

print(sunrise)
print(sunset)

time_now = datetime.now()

print(time_now.hour)
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