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The python program only publishes the first item in the query. I'd like to iterate through all items and publish them to HTML but can't figure out how.
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| # Practicing call to DPLA and getting data from it, then displaying results via html | |
| import webbrowser | |
| from operator import itemgetter | |
| import requests | |
| f=open('result.html', 'w') | |
| # Make an api call and store the response. | |
| url = "https://api.dp.la/v2/items?q=penguins&api_key=aefc7b2874411888e4e06b515935c19c" | |
| r = requests.get(url) | |
| print('Status code: ', r.status_code) | |
| # Process information from each item | |
| data = r.json() | |
| data_list = [] | |
| # Everything before the list goes in header | |
| header = """<html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title> Practice </title> | |
| <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css"></link> | |
| <style> | |
| body { margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 20px;} | |
| h1 { } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1> Practicing Python Queries to HTML Data </h1>""" | |
| # put the list in the docs variable | |
| docs = "" | |
| for d in data['docs']: | |
| # print('Title:', d['sourceResource']['title']) | |
| # print('Source:', d['dataProvider']) | |
| # print('URL:', d['isShownAt']) | |
| title = d['sourceResource']['title'] | |
| source =d['dataProvider'] | |
| link = d['isShownAt'] | |
| message = """<p><strong>Title: </strong><a href="%s"> %s</a><br><strong>Location: </strong>%s</p>""" | |
| # pass results from python query to html display | |
| result = message % (link, title, source) | |
| docs += result | |
| # put everyting after the list in footer | |
| footer = """</body> | |
| </html>""" | |
| # write all data to html file | |
| f.write(header) | |
| f.write(docs) | |
| f.write(footer) | |
| f.close() | |
| webbrowser.open_new_tab('result.html') |
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| <!-- This is the html file created from the above python file --> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title> Practice </title> | |
| <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css"></link> | |
| <style> | |
| body { margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 20px;} | |
| h1 { } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1> Practicing Python Queries to HTML Data </h1> | |
| <p><strong>Title: </strong><a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-dcac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99"> Poems for penguins</a><br><strong>Location: </strong>General Research Division. The New York Public Library</p> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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Refactored to not rewrite the entire html for each item in the docs list retrieved.