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Exploring advanced API concepts - Python Tutorial
From the course: Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services
Exploring advanced API concepts
- Did you know that in the real world, APIs often deal with large datasets, multiple users, and security concerns? We need to go beyond the basics to make APIs more efficient and scalable. Let's start with the challenge of handling large datasets. Imagine you're scrolling through an online store with thousands of products. You don't load all of them at once. Instead, you see a limited number of items per page. This is called pagination, and it's a key technique for keeping APIs efficient. Without pagination, an API could return huge amounts of data, slowing down response times and overloading both the server and the client. Instead, we break results into smaller pages and allow clients to request data in chunks. A common approach to pagination is using limit and offset parameters. Limit defines how many results to return per request. Offset defines where to start retrieving results. This request retrieves 10 books, starting from the 20th record. Clients can adjust these values to…
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