Goals: what you will make by the end of the day (2)

Open Trivia DB

• Using TRIVIA API that we have learned on Day17 to build up Quiz App by TKinter
• Using API to populate questions in our quiz

Trivia Question API Challenge (6)

1. Modify the data.py file (don’t change the main.py)

2. Make a get() request to fetch 10 True or False questions.

3. Parse the JSON response and replace the value of question_data (don’t change the variable name)

4. Hint: create a Python dictionary for the amount and type parameters.

Solution & Walkthrough for getting Trivia Questions (4)

• data.py

import requests

URL = "<https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=10&category=18&difficulty=medium&type=boolean>"
response = requests.get(URL)
response.raise_for_status
data = response.json()
#print(data["results"])

question_data = data["results"]

Unescaping HTML Entitles (4)

• There is a way to replace HTML characters so it will not be displayed in question list.
• HTML Entities

HTML Entities