Introduction to Data Ingestion
Ingesting from APIs
Reading Multiple File Formats
Pydantic for Data Validation
Writing to Databases
Error Handling and Logging
Practice
Assignment
Gotchas & Pitfalls
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3. Ingesting from APIs
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Suggested Topics
- HTTP basics: GET, POST, headers, status codes
- The
requests library: making API calls in Python
- Authentication patterns: API keys, OAuth2, Bearer tokens
- Handling authentication headers securely (environment variables, not hardcoded)
- Pagination: offset-based, cursor-based, link-based
- Rate limits: respecting limits, backoff strategies, detecting when limits are hit
- Error handling: distinguishing temporary (retry) vs permanent errors
- Pagination exercise: fetching all results from a paginated API
- Real example: integrating with a public API (GitHub, OpenWeather, etc.)
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