Getting the API for our App

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Hey everyone. In this lesson, we're gonna be figuring out what sort of data we want to have inside of our app and for that we're gonna go to the Queensland government website which is a data set website with a lot of free data sets. They have around 2,000 different data sets here, all with different sorts of information but the one we want to do and the one we're gonna be designing our app around is the upcoming firework displays. This is just a list of all the upcoming firework displays, where they are, what time and the sort of types of the actual fireworks so to get here we can just go data.qld.gov.au/dataset/fireworks and this will take you to this page here. Now to access the API, we need to click here where it says data and resources. We just click on the API here and this will open up this screen here but you may be thinking to yourself, what is an API? Well an API is a framework that allows us to connect to a website or connect to a program application or something that we can then return information from it and in this sense, we are accessing the Queensland government website, their data website, and we are accessing the upcoming firework displays information. There's APIs for many different things. There's APIs for many different websites and services have APIs that we can access, for example, a lot of bus networks would have APIs so that, if you want, you could build an app around that to access the location data and timetables of buses and lots of other websites where it allows you to sort of access their features outside of their website. For example, Google has this, Twitter has this, Facebook has this. There's many APIs for them that allow you to access their website. For YouTube, you can modify your channel settings and video settings and account settings and all that. That's not directly on their website, that is done through an API. We can actually see all the data right now if we just click here on the visualization preview button. This will open up a page with a table similar to sort of, the sort of thing you'd see in Excel. It has all the data listed out for us with all these different fields with ID, display date, the times, the suburb, postcode, display address, the event type and the display type so most of this information we'll be using inside of our app. We'll be able to display to the user all these different fields and even sort by the display date and suburb.

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