In this article we review last week’s Query the Spotify API code challenge.
Reminder: new structure review post / Hacktoberfest is back!
From now on we will merge our solution into our Community branch and include anything noteworthy here, because:
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we are learning just like you, we are all equals 🙂
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we need the PRs too 😉 … as part of Hacktoberfest No. 5 that just kicked of (5 PRs and you get a cool t-shirt)
Don’t be shy, share your work!
Community Pull Requests
20+ PRs this week, wow!
$ git pull origin community
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104 files changed, 242507 insertions(+)
Check out the awesome PRs by our community for PCC53 (or from fork: git checkout community && git merge upstream/community):
Some learnings for PCC53:
Spotify Web apis are not so straight forward. It takes a bit of time to understand the type of Authorization approach to call the APIs. I’ve started with Spotipy module and did a test run. Once all good, I’ve walked through the Spotipy code in github and coded my own Wrapper classes.
The Spotify API was more complex than I realised. Had to wrap my head around their authentication which was tough. Parsing the returned super nested dict was also a bit of a challenge. Once I figured that out though it was a matter of presenting it. I wrapped it all in Flask so that was fun!
Always nice to keep practicing Flask and Web APIs. Funny to see that out of Git’s 200 additions, 152 lines are html/css and the Python took no more than 30 lines, awesome when you can just plug these robust libraries in!
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You can look at all submitted code here and/or on our Community branch.
Other learnings we spotted in Pull Requests for other challenges this week:
(PCC01) I learned a shortcut using .read().splitlines() instead of .readlines() and requiring me to .split() afterwords.
(PCC02) Learned about itertools.permutations.
(PCC03) I got introduced to difflib.SequenceMatcher and itertools.product. Which are both very nice and I learned about a method of the Counter object called most_common which I didn’t know about yet.
(PCC19) Interacted with any Google API for the first time. Learned about doing an HTTP POST. Learning about clean code. Explored .gitignore
(PCC22) Learned a lot on web scraping, selenium and email notifications.
(PCC28) New package ‘bokeh’!. So easy to plot the data!. Python ecosystem for visualization is awesome. It’s a good challenge to get hands own on Flask and Bokeh.
(PCC42) Find consecutive equal words, how to handle greedy regex
(PCC44) This was a good challenge to go back to the basics of Data analysis (cleaning, parsing and manipulate).
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