API in Python

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To connect to API's is Requests the best tool.
Today is most common that get JSON back from API,then can parse out wanted stuff as you get Python dictionary back.
Example:

>>> import requests
>>> 
>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/defunkt')
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> data = r.json()
>>> data['company']
'@github '
>>> data['bio']
'? '
>>> data['updated_at']
'2018-02-25T19:53:23Z'