Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Python for Secret Agents

You're reading from   Python for Secret Agents Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agents

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783980420
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
Author Profile Icon Steven F. Lott
Steven F. Lott
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Using a REST API in Python

A great deal of intelligence data is available through REST APIs. Much of the data is available in simple JSON, CSV, or XML documents. In order to make sense of this data, we need to be able to parse these various kinds of serialization formats. We'll focus on JSON because it's widely used. Sadly, it's not universal.

A REST protocol is essentially HTTP. It will leverage POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE requests to implement the essential four stages in the life of persistent data: Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete (CRUD) rules.

We'll look at currency conversion as a simple web API. This can both help us bribe our information sources as well as provide important information on the overall state of a nation's economy. We can measure national economies against each other as well as measure them against non-national crypto currencies such as bitcoins.

We'll get exchange and currency information from http://www.coinbase.com. There are a lot...

You have been reading a chapter from
Python for Secret Agents
Published in: Aug 2014
Publisher:
ISBN-13: 9781783980420
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime