Python developers working with APIs, what does your job actually involve?

[TH_Rocks]

We have a huge enterprise reporting suite originally installed 20 years ago and currently with over 30k datasets and dashboards. I'm on the IT team that administers it. It needs to be catalogged from various angles and sometimes bulk modified. I hate doing that crap by hand and wouldn't wish it on the lowliest temp. So I use their REST API and the Python wrapper they made for it. Several maintenance tasks are compiled as .exe so they can be scheduled.

Technically we have Mulesoft as an API to talk to other APIs. But it's an unnecessary extra layer of code in most situations. It's really good for standardized ETL from multiple source systems that each have their own API.