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Fabrizio Romano
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Fabrizio Romano was born in Italy in 1975. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Padova. He's been working as a professional software developer since 1999. Fabrizio has been part of Sohonet's Product Team since 2016. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.
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Heinrich Kruger was born in South Africa in 1981. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has been working as a professional software developer since 2014. Heinrich has been working alongside Fabrizio in the Product Team at Sohonet since 2017. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.
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Consuming an API

There are several ways to consume an API. We have seen a very common one: the console. This is a great way to experiment with an API, but it can be a bit cumbersome when the data we need to pass along with the request, including query parameters, headers, and so on, becomes more and more complex. For those situations, there are other options.

One option we often use is to talk to the API from within a Jupyter Notebook. We can use the Requests library (or anything equivalent) to call the endpoints and inspect data from within the Notebook. This solution is quite comfortable.

Another option is to use dedicated tools that provide you with a graphical user interface, like Postman, which comes packed with plenty of functionality. You can find Postman here: https://www.postman.com.

Browsers also now come with extensions that allow you to talk to APIs very easily.

Of course, we could also create a console or a GUI application that we can then use to exercise...

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Fabrizio Romano was born in Italy in 1975. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Padova. He's been working as a professional software developer since 1999. Fabrizio has been part of Sohonet's Product Team since 2016. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.
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Heinrich Kruger was born in South Africa in 1981. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has been working as a professional software developer since 2014. Heinrich has been working alongside Fabrizio in the Product Team at Sohonet since 2017. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.
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