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Using httpbin.org

Using httpbin.org - Python Tutorial

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Using httpbin.org

- [Instructor] In this course, I'm going to use a free online tool called httpbin to test the various examples I've written to access web-based data sources. This tool can be found online at httpbin.org. And keep in mind, this tool might have a different appearance when you view it than it does at the time of this recording. So this tool provides a set of URL endpoints that you can use to test various ways of working with http. So for example, if I expand the http methods section here, you can see that there are different options for trying out different http verbs. So if I click on the get option, I'm presented with some options for trying out a get request. So I'll click on try it out, and there are no parameters for this particular test, so I'll just simply click the execute button, and if I scroll down here a little bit, you can see the result. So here's the 200 response code, and here's the response body that comes back from the test request, and this is a set of json data with…

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