+ Introduction
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+ So what is this all about? I'm sure you have a lot of questions. The big picture here is that this is a step-by-step tutorial on how to build your own API using web scraping.
+ Let's see if we can answer a few more questions you may have.
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+ But what even is an API?
+ API stands for Application Programming Interface. Does that mean anything? That's okay if it doesn't!
+ Check out this beginner-friendly article from
+ FreeCodeCamp.
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+ Why build your own API?
+ Yes it's true there are 1000s of free APIs at your disposal all around the web! For us, we weren't finding
+ APIs of the shows and media we liked, so we built our own! It's awesome to contribute to the tech world
+ with something else you know and love.
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+ What is web scraping and why should I use it?
+ For a basic overview of what web scraping is, check out this article from
+ GeeksForGeeks.
+ If you are building an API from scratch, you most likely do not have a dataset just lying around. If you do, awesome!
+ For us and as you will see in this tutorial, the data lived out there for free consumption on the internet. We just put it into
+ a digestible format for the database and our API users. It's also just a great skill to learn and it's fun!
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+ So what am I going to learn?
+ You will learn step-by-step how to create an API from scratch using web scraping.
+ After following along our tutorial and linked resources, you should be able to create your own APIs!
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