Request JSON data from API and cache the result so you won't abuse the servers when developing

cache_get.py

def cache_get(url):
    """Request from API and cache the result"""
    import hashlib
    import json
    import os
    import requests

    domain = url.split('/')[2].split('.')[-2]
    path = os.path.join(
        '.cache',
        '%s_%s' % (
            domain,
            hashlib.sha256(url.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()[0:32]
        )
    )
    try:
        os.mkdir('.cache')
    except FileExistsError:
        pass
    try:
        with open(path, 'r') as fp:
            return json.loads(fp.read())
    except FileNotFoundError:
        data = requests.get(url).json()
        with open(path, 'w') as fp:
            fp.write(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
        return data