Using Web Services

Web services allow a program to access data available in a different server.

Slides

• Pythonlearn-13-WebServices.pptx

Videos

• Web Services - Part 1 (2:49)
• Web Services - XML - Part 2 (5:42)
• Worked Example: XML (6:07)
• Web Services - XML Schema - Part 3 (14:08)
• Web Services - JSON - Part 4 (6:29)
• Worked Example: JSON (5:51)
• Discovering JSON - Douglas Crockford (7:08)
• Web Services - SOA - Part 5 (2:02)
• The JISC e-Framework (5:16)
• Web Services - GeoJSON - Part 6 (8:46)
• Worked Example: opengeo.py (20:09)

References

• Chapter 13: Python and Web Services

Discussions

• Using Web Services (Login Required)
  

Tools

• Autograder: Extracting Data from XML (Login Required)
  
• Quiz: XML (Login Required)
  
• Autograder: Extract Data from JSON (Login Required)
  
• Quiz: JSON (Login Required)
  
• Autograder: Using the GeoJSON API (Login Required)