There’s an amazing amount of data available on the Web. Many web services, like YouTube and GitHub, make their data accessible to third-party applications through an application programming interface (API). One of the most popular ways to build APIs is the REST architecture style. Python provides some great tools not only to get data from REST APIs but also to build your own Python REST APIs.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn:
- What REST architecture is
- How REST APIs provide access to web data
- How to consume data from REST APIs using the requests library
- What steps to take to build a REST API
- What some popular Python tools are for building REST APIs
By using Python and REST APIs, you can retrieve, parse, update, and manipulate the data provided by any web service you’re interested in.
HashiCorp Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. Vault handles leasing, key revocation, key rolling, and auditing. Through a unified API, users can access an encrypted Key/Value store and network encryption-as-a-service, or generate AWS IAM/STS credentials, SQL/NoSQL databases, X.509 certificates, SSH credentials, and more.