How to use a Public API | Using a Public API with Python
Channel: Alex The Analyst
Date: 31/05/2022

APIs are extremely useful to know how to use. In this video we walk through what an API is and then we look at how to actually use it.

CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/

CoinMarketCap API: https://coinmarketcap.com/api/

CoinMarketCap API Documentation: https://coinmarketcap.com/api/documentation/v1/

Python Code - GitHub: https://github.com/AlexTheAnalyst/AlexTheAnalyst/blob/master/How%20to%20use%20an%20API%20%2B%20API%20Test%20Notebook%20.ipynb

API FULL PROJECT LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB2CtEDrglY

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0:00 Intro
0:12 What is an API?
1:38 Looking at CoinMarketCap API
4:53 Using an API Key with Python
9:56 API JSON format to Dataframe
12:26 Outro

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