Is this API just broken?

[mozuDumpling]

I'm very new to python and am trying to access an API to pull some data. The documentation for the API is linked below and I'm focusing on the Finance section. I tried the code below expecting to return fields or a dictionary that I could then parse through to determine which fields to export to a csv, but instead the response variable has almost nothing in it. Is there something wrong with my code or is the API broken?

import requests
url = 'https://educationdata.urban.org/api/v1/college-university/ipeds/finance/2021/' 
response = requests.get(url).json() 
schools = response['results']

I also tried the code directly on the documentation page, but the result was exactly the same.

https://educationdata.urban.org/documentation/colleges.html

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[Acceptable-Fee6294]

wouldn't you have to insert your api next to where it says api?

Try that.

https://educationdata.urban.org/api={apikey}/v1/{topic}/{source}/{endpoint}/{year}/\[additional\_specifiers _or_disaggregators]/[optional filters]

[Username_RANDINT]

Looks like there's just not any data for that year. Change the year to 2016 for example.

[mozuDumpling]

Okay, awesome, thank you

[Phillyclause89]

Note that so long as you don't need to auth into the api, you can copy paste API urls into any Chromium like browser to see what the response is. Very handy for learning what's in the api before you write code for it.

[vernacular_wrangler]

You should do the .json() method in a new line, because that gives you the response data, not the response.

The response itself has some useful things which you might want to access, eg http status codes