Python: Getting University Names Based On The Country Inserted

Description

Using API and JSON library to create a Python program.

What does this program do?

The Python code uses an API that shows you the college names based on the country you input. Once the user type the country name, it asks the API to retrieve the college names, in order to save them, we gather the results in JSON then use python dictionary to print the results.

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Code

The Python code has comments on what does each line do for a better understanding of the program.

Things needed to run the Python code:

import urllib.request
import json 

Insert country

print('BROWSE UNIVERSITIES FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES')
# as long as the user doesn't type x then this program will keep running
while True:
    # ask user to enter a country
    country = input('Enter country or enter "x" to exit: ')
    # if user inputted letter x then end the program
    if country == 'x': 
        quit() 

Url of the API + the input of what the user typed. In this case, the name of the country

    url = "http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?country=" + country

    # url can't have space, I added this so that the user can input countries with space in between such as United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, etc
    urlreplace = url.replace(" ","%20")

Requesting JSON data from the API

    json_data = urllib.request.urlopen(urlreplace)

Convert the JSON to Python Dictionary

    data = json.loads(json_data.read()) 

If user doesn’t type the country name correctly, it will keep prompting “Please enter a valid country”

    if len(data) == 0:
        print('Please enter a valid country!')
    else:
        for item in data:
            print(item['name'])

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Output

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Python

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