How to make your first API call
Step by step guide
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Step by step guide
Last updated
Before you start making your first API call, open the answr API Reference. You can find it in the answr Web app or through the answr documentation.
The documentation provides complete reference on the authentication process, but also on how different statistics and data layers, like and , can be requested.
This guide provides you a short introduction on how to make your first answr API call.
Depending on what programming language you prefer, we have currently code examples for requests and responses in cURL, Python, Javascript, MATLAB and R available.
Check out the chapter and choose the programming language you want to use.
Copy the code from "Step 1" and set up your console for performing your authentication process!
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As a first step you will need to authenticate yourself.
Below you can find a code example in Python. Exchange the dummy email and password with your account credentials.
If the request was successful (value = 200), you will receive a Authentication Token (Bearer), which will have the following format:
Use it to perform your first data requests.
Here is again an example in Python. Replace the word "TOKEN" with the Authentication Token you have received in the authentication process:
Response: (Average frost days per month on the chosen location)
Congratulations! You successfully performed your first data request.
Once you have authenticated yourself and received your Token, you can start requesting data through the answr API. You will find the Code how to perform your first data request in different programming languages, in "Step2" of the .