Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Requesting Data from API

The video tutorial explains how to make API calls from a website using the network tab to obtain JSON data. It demonstrates using the Scrapy shell to fetch responses and check status codes. The tutorial covers loading the response body as JSON and extracting specific data like page numbers and quotes. Finally, it discusses organizing data into dictionaries and lists for easy access.

Describe the process of using the scrapy shell to fetch API data.

What is the significance of the 200 status code in an API response?

What is the difference between receiving HTML content and JSON data from an API call?

Explain how to extract data from a JSON response using Python.

How can you access specific data points, such as page number or quotes, from the JSON response?