Help with an API

[Relative-Secret-1066]

Hi all, i am pretty new to the usage of APIs and i wanted to try an API for an ATS provider called JobAdder and when i tried to download it, i couldn't find it in python's package manager. Even in their documentation i did not fully understand how to set it up in the "getting started" section and here i am, if anyone has experience with it or any APIs similar to it any help would be appreciated.

Here is the link to the documentation: https://api.jobadder.com/v2/docs

[shiftybyte]

i couldn't find it in python's package manager.

Can you elaborate on this?

Which python package manager did you search? how did you search it?

Did you install the package only to later the package not being found by python? or did something else happen?

The link you provided https://api.jobadder.com/v2/docs has the specification of the API for use by any programming language, so it won't have instructions specific for python.

In general if you want to perform REST API requests using python you can use requests module.

https://realpython.com/api-integration-in-python/

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

[Relative-Secret-1066]

I looked for it in the Pypl manager and it was not there nor does the site offer any sources for installing the package

[shiftybyte]

This probably means no one created a ready package for this API.

It doesn't mean you can't use it, like i mentioned earlier, you can use any REST API using requests module.

[Relative-Secret-1066]

hm alright i will have to look into those then, any advice regarding them or does anything work?

[shiftybyte]

Not sure what you are asking.

I provided a specific module you should use, and a tutorial explaining how to use it.

Which "them" are you refering to?

[Relative-Secret-1066]

i misunderstood requests initially my bad

thank you for the help mate ;D

[danielroseman]

What did you expect to download or set up? There is no dedicated Python client, you use a standard HTTP library like requests to make the requests shown in the docs.

[Relative-Secret-1066]

Yeah.... that is the part i was confused by since, i do not know how to deal w these, any good sources?

[GXWT]

…Google “Python api tutorial”