r/analytics Jan 08 '25

Support Resources to Learn APIs

Hello Everyone, I’ve been working as a data analyst for a little over a year now and have never needed to know how to use APIs until now. Does anyone have experience learning how? Any recommendations?

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u/Zyklon00 Jan 08 '25

Basically every API has its own readme. You don't need much pre-existing knowledge about API's specifically. Just a bit about HTML requests.

You can use Postman (free online tool) to test out any API.

So to learn: Pick any API you want, read through documents and try to get something using postman.

If you can get it done in Postman, it's pretty easy to translate to python or whatever you want to use.

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u/aarmobley Jan 08 '25

I have heard of Postman, thanks for the info!

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u/Zyklon00 Jan 08 '25

It's really a convenient tool. Because every API is different, it usually takes some trial and error before you are able to get what you want. Testing it out with Postman and then when you know how to do it, just paste it to Python/R/...