This was a simple project I undertook while learning about processing
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data using Python(ver 3)
To any seasoned Python script writers this code could use a lot of
work and some organization. However, it suited me fine at the time
of creation as my goal was simply to get a handle on retrieving and
manipulating JSON data with the Python Standard Library.
I used a cost-free api at DEDOLIST where a
number of data sources are available without Authorization. Also
available are API end-points for Postal Codes, a few word lists, the
Periodic Table of Elements as well as Airport information, Country
Region Codes and UTC Timezones.
These scripts leverage the Python module requests to retrieve the
data in JSON format. Then use the standard library json module to
read the data, remove non-changing key (all the data is for US cities and states)
then write it back out sans the ["country"] key to file for later
processing and probable migration to an SQLite3 db.
get_ac_json.py fetches the JSON data for US Area Codes
clean_area_code_api_data.py removes the 'country' key, which is unchanging
for all the entries. Then writes the data back out to US_area_codes.json
It's released under a Public Domain license. Feel free to incorporate any
part of it in your own project(s) w/o attribution. Not that there's anything
special here 😜
- add some header checking after Response is returned once I figure out how this api does rate-limiting