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Antonio Melé
Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Consuming the RESTful API

Now that you have implemented an API, you can consume it in a programmatic manner from other applications. You can interact with the API using the JavaScript Fetch API in the frontend of your application, in a similar fashion to the functionalities you built in Chapter 6, Sharing Content on Your Website. You can also consume the API from applications built with Python or any other programming language.

You are going to create a simple Python application that uses the RESTful API to retrieve all available courses and then enroll a student in all of them. You will learn how to authenticate against the API using HTTP basic authentication and perform GET and POST requests.

We will use the Python Requests library to consume the API. We used Requests in Chapter 6, Sharing Content on Your Website, to retrieve images by their URL. Requests abstracts the complexity of dealing with HTTP requests and provides a very simple interface to consume HTTP services...

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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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