API Requests and Web Scraping Quiz

import re
from typing import List
from datetime import datetime
from collections import Counter
import math
## Import requests library
import requests

def get_question(q):
    # Create URL with q parameter q=<question>
    url = 'http://api.brainly.co/api/questions/v2/explore'
    params = {
        'page': 1,
        'limit': 1,
        'q': re.sub(r'\s+', "+", q)
    }
    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}

    try:
        r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)
        response = r.json()
        if len(response['data']) > 0:
            return response['data']['title']
    except Exception as e:
        print("Error:", str(e))
    return ""

def search(term, count=1):
    query = term + "+site:" + "edu"
    url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1"
    service_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"  # Provide your API key here
    startTime = datetime.now()  # Get current timestamp
    payload = {
        'key': service_key,
        'cx': '',
        'q': query,
        'num': count,
        'starttime': int(startTime.timestamp())
    }
    headers = {
        "Accept": "application/json; utf-8",
        "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1",
        "Accept-Language": "en",
    }
    try:
        r = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)
        response = r.json()
        if 'items' in response:
            return response['items']
        else:
            raise AttributeError("Items not found")
    except Exception as e:
        print("Search error:", str(e))
    return []

def search_quora(q):
    url = 'http://api.brainly.co/questions/search/v3'
    query = q + "+site:*+edu"
    params = {
        'page': 1,
        'limit': 10,
        'query': query
    }
    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}

    try:
        r = requests.post(url, params=params, headers=headers)
        response = r.json()
        if 'data' in response:
            return response['data']['items']
    except Exception as e:
        print("Quora error:", str(e))
    return []

def top_quora_posts(posts, limit=10):
    result_dict = {}
    for post in posts:
        title = post['name']
        author = post['author']
        votes = post['stats']['votes']
        views = post['stats']['views']
        last_activity = post['last_activity_date']
        total_information = views + votes
        result_dict[title] = [author, votes, total_information]

    sorted_result_dict = dict(sorted(result_dict.items(), key=lambda item: item, reverse=True))
    top_keys = list(sorted_result_dict.keys())[:limit]
    top_values = [sorted_result_dict[key] for key in top_keys]
    return top_values

def search(term, count=1):
    query = term + "+site:*+edu"
    url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1"
    service_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"  # Provide your API key here
    startTime = datetime.now()  # Get current timestamp
    payload = {
        'key': service_key,
        'cx': '',
        'q': query,
        'num': count,
        'starttime': int(startTime.timestamp())
    }
    headers = {
        "Accept": "application/json; utf-8",
        "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1",
        "Accept-Language": "en",
    }
    try:
        r = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)
        response = r.json()
        if 'items' in response:
            return response['items']
        else:
            raise AttributeError("Items not found")
    except Exception as e:
        print("Search error:", str(e))
    return []

def search_quora(q):
    url = 'http://api.brainly.co/questions/search/v3'
    query = q + "+site:*+edu"
    params = {
        'page': 1,
        'limit': 10,
        'query': query
    }
    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}

    try:
        r = requests.post(url, params=params, headers=headers)
        response = r.json()
        if 'data' in response:
            return response['data']['items']
    except Exception as e:
        print("Quora error:", str(e))
    return []

Test your knowledge on making API requests and web scraping using Python. The quiz covers topics such as utilizing the 'requests' library, handling JSON responses, and scraping data from websites. Challenge yourself with questions on fetching online content programmatically!